Dr. Herder -- survivor or perpetrator?
In the scene in which they convince Jack that God is not loving, but malevolent, Dr. Herder comments that he has seen the piles of gold teeth and hair. The implication is not that he saw them as museum exhibits, but when Auschwitz was in actual operation. The unresolved ambiguity: Was Dr. Herder at Auschwitz as an inmate -- or as a perpetrator?
Balok