Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) reviewed on 1/22/2014 + 628 more book reviews

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I've read a lot of books about the holocaust in an effort to understand how something this horrific could happen and why people let it happen. This is a well written book, but I was very disappointed that we learned so little about the Jewish prisoners. Instead, it focused on zookeeper and his wife, who were Polish. The telling of the story of the Warsaw ghetto was very informational, and we got some view of the Polish resistance to the Germans, but there was too much info about zoology and the zoo itself. It was new info however for me to read about the participation and lengths of involvemnent of older and extinct animal species of Hitler and the Nazis, who believed they were preserving "true" races of animals too, to get back to the original, like a master race of animals too.

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