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by yesenadam 2476 days ago
I read Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning) decades ago and was impressed too. But a year or two ago I learnt more about his story. A reader of that book, which sold millions, would be surprised to learn, for example, that Frankl only spent a few days at Auschwitz, himself performed medical experiments on Jews, or that "in 1978 when attempting to give a lecture at the institute of Adult Jewish Studies in New York, Frankl was confronted with an outburst of boos from the audience and was called a nazi pig". Frankl's biographer wrote "...we know the reality of Auschwitz is that attitude mattered little for survival."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl#Controversy