Bibliograph

Reading the Holocaust, Inga Clendinnen

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Reading the Holocaust, Inga Clendinnen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading the Holocaust

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40510489

Responsibility statement

Inga Clendinnen

Summary

The events of the Holocaust remain 'unthinkable' to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling as they were half a century ago. Inga Clendinnen challenges our bewildermentShe seeks to dispel what she calls the Gorgon effect: the sickening of the imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to confront the horrors of this historyClendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of viewShe discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexed issue of 'resistance' in the camps, and strategies for understanding the motivations of the Nazi leadership. She focuses anAnthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the campsAnd she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film

Table Of Contents

Beginning -- Impediments -- Part I. Victims: Witnessing -- Resisting -- Part II. Perpetrators: Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando -- Leaders -- The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland -- The Auschwitz SS -- Representing the Holocaust

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