In the Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal, John T. Pawlikowski put his thoughts in the book about Simon’s situation. Pawlikowski believes it is the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation (Wiesenthal 220). Wiesenthal decline to speak about forgiveness the dying Nazi soldier asks for. Pawlikowski thinks that Wiesenthal did think about forgiving the soldier but he didn’t. To be able to forgive, reconciliation comes along because Wiesenthal is being asked to reconcile publicly with the Nazi soldier. There are stages of reconciliation such as repentance, contrition, acceptance of responsibility, healing, and finally reunion (221). All of this is hard because of their limited time and their conditions. Pawlikowski perceives that the
