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The Unsettling Aspect of Auschwitz
David Marwell elaborates on this kind of peculiar aspect of Auschwitz further. The notion of mangula as unhinged driven by demons and indulging grotesque and sadistic impulses should be replaced with something perhaps even more unsettling. Mangula was in fact in the scientific vanguard enjoying the confidence and mentorship of the leaders in his field. They were able to justify this to themselves not by saying, you know, fuck these people. Most of them did not talk about it that way.