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Interestingly enough, Sidney Gottlieb was my great uncle's college roommate at the University of Wisconsin, and they later reconnected after the war and became
by Alex3917 6y ago
Interestingly enough, Sidney Gottlieb was my great uncle's college roommate at the University of Wisconsin, and they later reconnected after the war and became lifelong best friends. Apparently they both went there after colleges on the east coast started putting quotas on Jews. There is an interesting article about their relationship here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2001/12/16/the-coldest/83f56312-8cca-481f-af17-5d8eb0356612/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/20...
Unfortunately I didn't find out until after my great uncle had died, would have been super interesting to ask him about.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoThe accounts of people who couldn't reconcile their mild mannered personal acquaintance with the unspeakable evil he carried out are quite interesting and instructive. This article treats the Nazi death camp experimenter comparison as unjustified, but we now know from Kinzer's book that Gottlieb even collaborated with such people (e.g. Kurt Blome) after they were protected from prosecution by the U.S.