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A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps
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Published:November 2000
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This chapter examines Lithuanian intellectual Balys Sruoga's account of his stay in Stutthof concentration camp, Forest of the Gods (1996). Sruoga is a master of the language of irony; the reader reads and laughs and is immediately stunned both consciously and subconsciously at the appalling nature of the sociobiological experimentation carried out by the Nazis. Such language is painful and hard to create. Forest of the Gods describes the history of the camp, the everyday life of prisoners, various functional institutions, and their internal workings. Sruoga devotes much attention to the group of his colleagues who were deported from Lithuanian universities and schools for obstructing SS efforts to recruit Lithuanian youth into the SS. With deep irony, Sruoga emphasizes certain biographical facts or characteristic features and masterfully depicts the psychological abyss between the normal psyche and the ultimately sadistic nature. His talents as a writer and as an observer of psychology allow the reader to look more deeply into the problem of mass extermination. In this sense, Forest of the Gods reveals the anti-human nature of Nazism.
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