yes, P-related. Mag in which elites name some best they've read, there is this on the Bureaucracy of Death. Imagine researching it, but P was there first-- after Arendt.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 09:22:31 UTC 2020


Dan Gretton’s I, You, We, Them (Heinemann, £25). Twenty years in the
making, intended as an eventual 2,000-page double volume, this remarkably
powerful book entails a dogged and worldwide pursuit of ‘the desk-killer’,
the government functionary or business executive whose decisions so often
cost human lives.

The model of this remote-control assassin is Hitler’s architect Albert
Speer, but the German story is subsumed in a far more compelling and modern
investigation of the collective amnesia which so often operates in the
telling of national histories, including our own.


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