“But because so many kept silent, the temptation is great to discount one's own silence, or to compensate for it by invoking the general guilt, or to speak about oneself all but abstractly, in the third person: he was, saw, had, said, he kept silent...” WarRealitySilenceThoughtsGuiltRealizationContradictionWorld War IiDisbelief Book:Peeling the Onion Source: Peeling the Onion