Reviews for Decolonizing the text

The average rating for Decolonizing the text based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-12 00:00:00 Kevin Taylor As a severely disabled person, I am immensely interested in this subject-matter, for obvious reasons and several not-so-obvious reasons. Needless to say, I went into this with great expectations; and, perhaps not-so-surprisingly, I came away very disappointed. Although the author seeks to do honor to the lesser-known victims of the Holocaust; the book itself doesn't do a good enough job of this, at least personally. I'm unsure whether this is a stylistic issue; if, indeed, this is a result of the scant amount of concrete evidence pertaining to this atrocious aspect of the wider horrors of WWII, as the author claims; or whether this is due to something else entirely.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-21 00:00:00 Benny Henry A very impressive piece of scholarship, linking the murder of mentally and physically disabled people in Nazi Germany with the later mass murder of Jews and other victims in camps and gas chambers. The process of transporting the victims to centralized killing facilities, using ruses and lies to ensure a smooth process, selecting the victims before ushering them into the gas chamber, gassing them, plundering the corpses, and disposing the corpses is the same with "euthanasia" and the gassing of victims in death camps. As a result, Friedlander concludes correctly that the murder of the disabled needs to be classified as a part of the Holocaust.