Pan Books 1977 ISBN 0 330 02306 3. Første udgave 1968.
John le Carré (pseudonym) skriver - det ved de fleste - gode spændingsromaner. Det er en grund til at læse hans bøger.
Min grund er hans samvittighed, hans moralske holdning.
Jeg mener, at vi må slås for en posthum krigsforbrydelsessag mod de ansvarlige for "vores side"s krigsforbrydelser. Altså Churchill og bomber Harris (men ingen længere nede i systemet) bør dømmes for bombningen af Dresden. Her er en opgave for ICC. Befri jer fra at være sejrherrernes domstol.
Karfeld did not understand what was so very wrong about Nazism that it should be punished eternally with the whole world's hostility. The Nazis had persecuted the Jews: and that was wrong. He wished to go on record as saying it was wrong. Just as he condemned Oliver Cromwell for his treatment of the Irish, the United States for their treatment of the blacks and for their campaigns of genocide against the Red Indians and the yellow peril of South East Asia; just as he :ondemned the Church for its persecution of heretics, and the British for the bombing of Dresden, so he condemned Hitler for what he had done to the Jews: and for importing that British invention, so successfuhl in the Boer War: the concentration camp. 312
So England, with her allies, had re-educated the Germans. And who better qualified? After all, Churchill had let the savages into Berlin; Truman had dropped atom bombs on undefended cities; between them they had made a ruin of Europe: who better qualified, then, to teach the Germans the meaning of civilization? 315
Orla Jordal, 2007
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