But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. ↗
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. ↗
I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. ↗
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. ↗
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. ↗
