Germaine Tillion (1907 - 2008) was a
anthropologist, a veteran of the French
Resistance, a survivor of
the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrueck, and one of just five women in France's Legion of Honour.
the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrueck, and one of just five women in France's Legion of Honour.
Germaine Tillion is quoted in the 1954
book Le Systeme
Concentrationnaire Allemand
(The German Concentration Camp System)
stating that Ho£ocaust survivors who lie
are:
"very much more numerous than people generally suppose, and a subject like that of the concentration camp world—well designed, alas, to stimulate sado-masochistic imaginations—offered them an exceptional field of action. We have known numerous mentally damaged persons, half-swindlers and half fools, who exploited an imaginary deportation. We have known others of them—authentic deportees—whose sick minds strove to even go beyond the monstrosities that they had seen or that people said happened to them."
