In this story the author weaves his version of the biography of Rudolf Heiss. The fact of the good induced renaming the fact that it is not official but Robert MERLE also questioned on how a man becomes insensitive to this point is like a machine, excels in horror just to obey orders. Only facts recognized by history will be scrupulously taken. Apart from this incredible reality, the author describes the monster and its operation. The birth of the trauma that probably takes roots in an austere and rigid childhood with a father who would seek to atone for a lack of youth until his son promise to the church in order to obtain forgiveness. In this family where the word, joy and love are banned, the father acts as a real tyrant, the mother is subjected, and children suffer. Rudolf eventually escaped because he likes war, discipline, and does not feel that when his life is dictated, governed, driving. Whatever the form, the key is the culmination, the strict fulfillment of instructions, perfect obedience. But can we be so insensible to reality, we do evil, the suffering inflicted. It has something inhuman in that character, because he rebelled not even when his wife asked him she would react if asked to remove her own child! well it feels in this book that all that is foreign to his will to excel in its role does not matter. He does not know what love, filial, between a man and a woman, friendship, empathy .... I think this year came a very good book, easy to find, easy to read. But I still can not understand how one can speak of men, women and children in units, with as much detachment as if they were matchsticks or bolts. I am appalled. It is undoubtedly true that madness monstrosity: to be totally disconnected from reality, every human feeling, evolved in parallel to normality.
