Gripping ... a much-needed reinterrogation

A magisterial work...confident prose, trenchant insight and vivid illustration

A work of phenomenally thorough, generous and humane scholarship....Callil understands anguish, and lays bare its causes with clarity and precision. Bad Faith exemplifies what Primo Levi called the 'continuous intellectual and moral effort' that is the only adequate response to the events described here

Bad Faith is a book of passion and anger which, nonetheless, manages to keep its head as a significant work of history

We cannot know what Anne Darquier would have thought of Callil's book, but my guess is that she would have been as moved, astonished and impressed as any other reader

Extraordinary...touching... a masterpiece of lacerating satire

In providing such a detailed picture of one of the functionaries of the Nazi empire, Callil has brilliantly shown how such a system could encourage and promote nonentities who were prepared to mouth the necessary phrases, and to ignore the call of humanity

Bad Faith represents eight years of astonishing research...a remarkable book

A meticulous work of scholarship... [an] astonishing biography

Impeccably researched, Bad Faith is a work of great power and originality; Callil is to be congratulated on her achieivement