The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast… — Andre Malraux · Skopia

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The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

1967

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Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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