Here as with other phenomena, we are dealing a paradoxical analogy between victim and oppressor, and are anxious to be clear: both are in the same trap, but it is the oppressor, and he alone, who has prepared it and activated it, and if he suffers from this, it is right that he should suffer from it, as he does indeed suffer from it, even at a distance of decades. Once again it must be observed, mournfully, the injury cannot be healed: it extends through time and the Furies, in whose existence we are forced to believe, not only rack the tormentor (if they do rack him, assisted or not by human punishment), put perpetuate the tormentor’s work by denying peace to the tormented. It is not without horro that we read the words left us by Jean Améry, the Austrian philosopher tortured by the Gestapo because he active in the Belgian resistance and then deported to Auschwitz because he was Jewish: