Losing Trust in the WorldIn July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi occupied Belgium. When his torture inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Amry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling. Amry declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the very first