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Summary: Eternal Treblinka Review
Review: "Eternal Treblinka" is well-written, thought-provoking, and much easier to read than I had imagined it would be. Ordinarily I'd bypass non-fiction regarding the suffering endured by an entire race as well as the suffering of animals. But isn't that what so many others have done? With the deftness of a bona fide artist, Charles Patterson delves into Hitler's fury even before it was unleashed. Step-by-step, he takes your hand and holds it long enough to capture your heart. And then he lets you breathe. His comparison of Holocaust survivors to our mistreatment of animals is extraordinarily interesting. He backs up his words with what I can only imagine took thousands of hours of endless and exhausting research. With new vision, we see the slaughterhouses of animals and the slaughterhouses of Jews as remarkably alike. We see where Hitler got his inspiration for assembly-line killing. And in order for man to commit mass-murder, man must first mentally demote his victims. With clearer vision, we see that devaluation process unfold. No matter what position you take, this book is well worth the read. For in "Eternal Treblinka," Charles Patterson transforms the unutterable into a readable life lesson in humanity. There are some lessons that can't be taught to the mind, but which the heart receives fully. This book made a profound impact on both my heart and mind.
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Summary: Eternal Treblinka Review
Review: "Eternal Treblinka" is well-written, thought-provoking, and much easier to read than I had imagined it would be. Ordinarily I'd bypass non-fiction regarding the suffering endured by an entire race as well as the suffering of animals. But isn't that what so many others have done? With the deftness of a bona fide artist, Charles Patterson delves into Hitler's fury even before it was unleashed. Step-by-step, he takes your hand and holds it long enough to capture your heart. And then he lets you breathe. His comparison of Holocaust survivors to our mistreatment of animals is extraordinarily interesting. He backs up his words with what I can only imagine took thousands of hours of endless and exhausting research. With new vision, we see the slaughterhouses of animals and the slaughterhouses of Jews as remarkably alike. We see where Hitler got his inspiration for assembly-line killing. And in order for man to commit mass-murder, man must first mentally demote his victims. With clearer vision, we see that devaluation process unfold. No matter what position you take, this book is well worth the read. For in "Eternal Treblinka," Charles Patterson transforms the unutterable into a readable life lesson in humanity. There are some lessons that can't be taught to the mind, but which the heart receives fully. This book made a profound impact on both my heart and mind.
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Summary: I can't write anything better than the Rochester reader...
Review: ... but I must recommend this book HIGHLY, MOST HIGHLY to anyone with a conscience or who wants to develop her or his compassion. If sometimes you don't understand why people "give up" so much to become vegetarian or vegan, PLEASE read this book and lend your voice to those without one. This is perhaps less important that what the book is about, but the writing is also top-notch. Isaac Bashevis Singer would be proud.
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Summary: Deserving of the Nobel Prize
Review: As an international webcaster I have interviewed many authors on many different subjects. NEVER before have I read or interviewed anything as IMPORTANT, compelling and well done as Eternal Treblinka by Charles Patterson. This expose is more than you could ever have known before and a valuable addition to every library and school and home in America.
I can't say enough about it, it's number one on my list of recommended books ...
Meria
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Summary: Eternal Treblinka:Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
Review: Charles Patterson is relentless in his pursuit of the truth about man's treatment of animals. It takes a lot of integrity to write a book like this, to be so relentless. It made me cry to read it. But this is more than a book about man's treatment of animals. It is really about the values and morality of our society. This book/author deserves a Nobel prize.
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Summary: This is a book not to be missed.
Review: ETERNAL TREBLINKA has been a life-changing read. Patterson's choice of material is superb. Life changing is such an over-used term but I find TREBLINKA permeating areas of my life as small as do I myself kill the lizard the cat has wounded, or do I let it die its own death outside beneath a green leaf? This book has taught me about God and that I am not it. ETERNAL TREBLINKA restoreth my soul. It's a hard book to swallow and so it should be. Thank you, Charles Patterson.
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Summary: This is a book not to be missed.
Review: ETERNAL TREBLINKA has been a life-changing read. Patterson's choice of material is superb. Life changing is such an over-used term but I find TREBLINKA permeating areas of my life as small as do I myself kill the lizard the cat has wounded, or do I let it die its own death outside beneath a green leaf? This book has taught me about God and that I am not it. ETERNAL TREBLINKA restoreth my soul. It's a hard book to swallow and so it should be. Thank you, Charles Patterson.
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Summary: Disliked for Its Virtues
Review: Eternal Treblinka is a book to be loved by those who believe pursuit of the truth is the way to the most valuable things in life. It naturally will be deplored by those who wish to maintain blind faith in social fictions to the effect that all is well as long as external enemies can be smited and the markets kept operating.
After defeating the Nazi Holocaust, our society expanded its own. Its holocaust against animals, nourished by 10,000 years of animal domestication, fed on the technological opportunities for managing and slaughtering animals that the Nazi Holocaust had used for managing and slaughtering human beings. The breeding for preferred traits, the exploitation and killing of "life unworthy of life," the killing in a depersonalized fashion as a matter of daily business with machinery designed for the purpose, the talk of "humane killing"--these are defining features of both holocausts. Eternal Treblinka argues that the long-ago enslavement of nonhuman animals informed the Nazi Holocaust. One of the key technological developments along the way was the animal dis-assembly line -- the slaughterhouse -- admired and imitated for manufacture by Henry Ford, who had a relationship with Hitler based on mutual admiration, Ford's antisemitism holding special appeal for his German penpal.
For some, reading Eternal Treblinka will pose problems because it reveals evil running through countless human lives that we are encouraged to consider good. For others, it will raise the difficulty that ignorance of its contents will be a sign of extreme naivete. We are each a part of the solution or the problem with regard to the animal holocaust, depending on what we choose to know and to do. Eternal Treblinka helps show us how to choose for the better.
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Summary: Expertly Written, but Ultimately Misguided
Review: Eternal Treblinka is inarguably a masterfully written piece of literature, not to mention a fascinating read. Charles Patterson provides us with all of components necessary for a noteworthy book, offering a well-researched, thought-provoking volume that is truly the work of a skilled author. But a paradox lies within the message that Eternal Treblinka attempts to bring, and that contradiction ultimately causes the book to fall short of its potential. Eternal Treblinka suggests that the degrading treatment of animals by humans over the course of history led to the mistreatment of humans, beginning with the brutality of ancient civilizations and culminating with the Holocaust. The book makes a strong case for changing the way humans view animals, suggesting that today's slaughterhouse mentality could easily pave the way for future genocide. But therein lies the contradiction, beginning with the deadly assumption that man is simply another animal. In reality, man's intelligence and awareness is unmatched by any other member of the animal kingdom, making him by animal law itself superior. Carnivorousness is natural. Other high-ranking members of the animal kingdom, such as the lion, kill other animals for food, and their status in the food chain is based solely on their superiority in strength and intelligence. Yet lions do not engage in acts of mass genocide against their own kind. If man is simply an animal, why should we assume that unlike any other animal, his feeding habits have an effect on his social behavior? The alternative idea, of course, is that man is not an animal in the true sense of the word, but something far beyond animal, which we refer to as human. The very mentality behind the Holocaust was the German idea that some races of people were simply animals and therefore should be treated as such. This dehumanization of entire cultures and ethnicities ultimately led to the vile crimes against humanity committed by Hitler, Stalin, and the others whose atrocities are outlined in careful detail in this book. And by helping to propogate this idea that man is simply another animal instead of the superior, some would say more highly-evolved, being that he is, Eternal Treblinka accidentally works against itself, promoting the mentality that led to the events the book hopes to prevent from reoccuring. When the threads of Eternal Treblinka's paradigm unravel, the book is more easily seen for what it truly is: a beautifully-written plea for animal rights, using the heart-wrenching details of the Holocaust to call readers into action for a completely unrelated cause.
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Summary: A unique contribution to Holocaust Studies
Review: Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment Of Animals And The Holocaust is a grim, compelling examination of the emergence of industrialized slaughter of animals and a comparison of that technology, psychology, and philosophical rationale with the genocidal, methodical, industrialized slaughter of human beings in the holocausts of the 20th century. Controversial, iconoclastic, Eternal Treblinka concludes with poignant and inspiring personal stories drawn from animal advocates of Jewish descent whose lives and families were directly affected by the Holocaust. Eternal Treblinka is strongly recommended reading for animal rights activists and a unique contribution to Holocaust Studies reference collections.
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