than before the cost of war. it was a subcamp of bergen—belsen, and of course, one had read about concentration camps. and i had not realised until i saw that camp the depths to which human beings could be reduced. it's the institutionalised degradation, because these camps were organized hierarchically. and in a way, that organization must have been one of the most horrifying aspects of it. the fact that it was so regimented, so the awfulness of the system was being perpetuated. perpetuated among prisoners who were fighting to survive day by day. his experience in army intelligence