X-Nico

Jean Améry

In comparing the Nazis to a government of sadism, Améry suggests that it is the sadist's nature to want "to nullify the world".

•

Involved in the distribution of anti-military propaganda to the German occupying forces, Améry was captured by the Nazis in July 1943 and routinely tortured at the Belgian Gestapo center at Fort Breendonk.

see also