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  • Pharmacist Victor Capesius, at far left, and Ella Boehm next to him, at a swimming pool in Sighisoara, Romania, 1928.(Private collection; property of Gisela Böhm)
    Pharmacist Victor Capesius, at far left, and Ella Boehm next to him, at a swimming pool in Sighisoara, Romania, 1928.(Private collection; property of Gisela Böhm)
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    Ordinary People

    Two new books, The Druggist of Auschwitz and Reluctant Accomplice, offer true stories of average citizens’ divergent responses to Nazi rule. They help us examine our own rationalization of genocide.

    byAdam Kirsch
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