Reading the Holocaust

By:

Clendinnen, Inga

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1999.Description: ix, 227 pages illustrations, map ; 24 cmSubject(s):

Konzentrationslager Auschwitz -- Lager Birkenau Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism

DDC classification:

940.5318072 CLE

Summary: Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view. She 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 an. Anthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps. And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.

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Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view. She 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 an. Anthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps. And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.

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