What is Benedikt Kautsky?
Benedikt Kautsky, an Austrian Jew and prominent Socialist, spent most of the Third Reich in [[concentration camps]]. In his 1946 memoirs, he described the great difficulty of mutual assistance among prisoners. == 060 – The Auschwitz survivor Benedikt Kautsky on the “laws of the camps” == Everybody who was old, weak, or sick was condemned to death. There was little possibility of helping anyone. If I give something to someone I will be taking it away from somebody else. If I give something to someone who’s weak then I’ll keep him alive for longer, but in the end I won’t be able to save him. At the same time, I will be taking it away from a strong person and in doing so will be weakening him, so that he too will become weak and sick. The upshot is that I shall be harming both of them. Source: B. Kautsky, Teufel und Verdammte (Zurich, 1946), p. 165 Translation: Lesley Sharpe and Jeremy Noakes {{DEFAULTSORT:Kautsky, Benedikt}} [[Category:Austrian writers]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:20th-century writers]]