...seems to be a theme. In the flashbacks to Nazi concentration camps there are deaths by gassing, the double homicide crime is a gassing, and then Honza turns on the gas from the heater to commit suicide.
Do the double homicide gassing and the suicidal gassing both stem from the gassing at concentration camps? Are they trying to mimic that kind of death? Or is it something else? Just a convenient way to kill/die without pain?
It definitely seems like this theme is coming from the gassing at concentration camps. I know whenever I see or read something about a gassing, it seems to be a metaphor for the Holocaust or the concentration camps in some way. And I think also because Klima writes about the concentration camps in Judge on Trial, that is why he is continuing with the theme because it is something that he has seen first-hand. There is no theme of gassing or concentration camps in the other novels we have read or the other movies we have seen, and so it seems that because Klima experienced the concentration camps and saw the gassing occur, he would bring it up in his novel in different ways because it is something that he knows.
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