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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
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Does "not from the slipshod way he went about it" mean...
Does "not from the slipshod way he went about it" mean "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Mengele was not doing serious work?"
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Auschwitz prisoner Alex Dekel has said:
I have never accepted the fact that Mengele himself believed he was doing serious work – not from the slipshod way he went about it. He was only exercising his power. Mengele ran a butcher shop – major surgeries were performed without http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaesthesia. Once, I witnessed a stomach operation – Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anaesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again without anaesthesia. It was horrifying. Mengele was a doctor who became mad because of the power he was given. Nobody ever questioned him – why did this one die? Why did that one perish? The patients did not count. He professed to do what he did in the name of science, but it was a madness on his part.[20]
Context:
Auschwitz prisoner Alex Dekel has said:
I have never accepted the fact that Mengele himself believed he was doing serious work – not from the slipshod way he went about it. He was only exercising his power. Mengele ran a butcher shop – major surgeries were performed without http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaesthesia. Once, I witnessed a stomach operation – Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anaesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again without anaesthesia. It was horrifying. Mengele was a doctor who became mad because of the power he was given. Nobody ever questioned him – why did this one die? Why did that one perish? The patients did not count. He professed to do what he did in the name of science, but it was a madness on his part.[20]
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" Not exactly. The sentence means "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Alex Dekel thinks that Mengele himself did not believe he was doing serious work". Clive
- " Not exactly.
- The sentence means "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Alex Dekel thinks that Mengele himself did not believe he was doing serious work".
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Hi,
Does "not from the slipshod way he went about it" mean "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Mengele was not doing serious work?"
Not exactly. The sentence means "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Alex Dekel thinks that Mengele himself did not believe he was doing serious work".
Does "not from the slipshod way he went about it" mean "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Mengele was not doing serious work?"
Not exactly. The sentence means "Judging from Mengele's careless manner, Alex Dekel thinks that Mengele himself did not believe he was doing serious work".
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