TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clendinnen, Inga
TI  - Reading the Holocaust
U1  - 940.5318072 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge [England]
PB  -  Cambridge University Press, 1999.
KW  -  	      Konzentrationslager Auschwitz -- Lager Birkenau     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism.
N2  - 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.
ER  -