Meanwhile, Michael asks himself (and us): Further complicating the matter is the inadequacy of the law when the crime are so huge. Even now, I have to admire the restraint it took to not execute the worst offenders.
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In one of the most civilized acts ever seen in history, these people were given trials to determine their responsibility.
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Michael finds out about the trial because he was part of a group of law students who made a project of studying trials of former Nazis and Nazi officials. She’s put on trial begins with a bunch of other former guards. Hanna is accused of (and admits to) being a camp guard at an auxiliary camp at Auschwitz. In the second part of the book, more details are revealed and Schlink brings up some uncomfortable questions and situations. Michael and Hanna settle into a long term love affair with each other, until Hanna leaves.
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Because we get to see the relationship from its genesis, it doesn’t seem and strange and, well, illegal as it should. They start a relationship, partly, I suspect, because they are so isolated from everyone else and partly because they “get” each other. Michael is fifteen when he meets the older Hanna.
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The first part of the book introduces us to Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink and translated by Carol Brown Janeway, is a remarkable book that manages to present a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas without sacrificing plot or characterization.