Volume 16, Number 4 · March 11, 1971
He Descended into Hell in Vain
By W.H. Auden
A Spy for God: The Ordeal of Kurt Gerstein
by Pierre Joffroy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 319 pp., $6.95
It is very seldom that a book reduces me to tears as this one did. It is the story of a man who, if he had not committed suicide in a French prison in 1945, would almost certainly have been hanged at Nuremberg as a war criminal; yet, on finishing it, I find myself sharing Martin Niemöller's conviction that he was a saint.
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