JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primo Levi
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Primo levi has been captured by the fascist militia of italy. He had previously been dodging the authorities by hiding out in the mountains: his small group was trying to join a larger resistance movement called justice and. Primo: about a month later, the ss shows up and announces the jews will be leaving. No one knows: even more terrifying, the ss announces that for every person missing the next morning at departure, ten others would be randomly shot, many people in the camp, including primo, know what this journey means: death. German officers: some prisoners are told to go one way, and some another selected on the basis of age, gender and health, very quickly, all of the healthy, able men are rounded up.
