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Inhumanity In The Sunflower

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In the book The Sunflower the young S.S Karl asked Simon for forgiveness for his inhumanity to other people. Simon Wiesenthal could not forgive him for something he had done to someone else. (The Sunflower) How could I forgive someone or a whole country for doing something to someone else when it was not done to me? Simon Wiesenthal and Sven Alkalaj both agree that you cannot forgive someone for something they did to someone else (The sunflower, Sven Alkalaj). Both Simon and Sven have experienced the inhumanity that a whole country can cause. Simon spent years in a concentration camp and Sven went through similar conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a result of both men experiencing the same thing they both know what its like to be

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