Format:
Online-Ressource (251 p)
ISBN:
1280451505
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9781280451508
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9780195344592
Content:
War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental tension reached its natural conclusion in the Holocaust, and that disguising it has required an ongoing effort to misrepresent war and the Holocaust as something other than industrial killing. Examining a broad range of the representations of war's horrors, from scholarly depictions to those in popular literature, poetry, art, and the movies, O
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-235) and index
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""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Images of War and the Emergence of Industrial Killing""; ""1: Man and the Mass: Reality and the Heroic Image in War""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""IV""; ""V""; ""VI""; ""2: The European Imagination in the Age of Total War""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""IV""; ""II: The Holocaust: Histories, Memories, Stories""; ""3: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism""; ""I. Antisemitism""; ""II. The Holocaust""; ""III. National Socialism""
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""IV. Interpretations""""V. Modernity""; ""4: Historians on the Eastern Front: Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""5: An Idiot's Tale: Memories and Histories of the Holocaust""; ""I. The Facts of the Matter""; ""II. As a Matter of Fact""; ""III. Competing Memories""; ""IV. Epilogue: Satan�s Playground""; ""6: Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History, and Truth""; ""I. The Surfeit of Memory and the Uses of Forgetting""; ""II. The Historikerstreit and the Importance of Memory""; ""III. Israel, Commemoration, and the Normalization of Jewish Existence""
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""IV. Representation and its Discontents""""V. Denial, Relativism, Truth: The Fruits of Morbid Curiosity""; ""III: The Aesthetics of Murder: Visual Representations of Evil""; ""7: War, Memory, and Repression: Alexander Kluge and the Politics of Representation in Postwar Germany""; ""8: Chambers of Horror: The Reordering of Murders Past""; ""I. Clean Empty Uniforms: War Exhibited""; ""II. Shooting War: The Price of Glory""; ""III. On Heroes and Villains: The Holocaust in Hollywood""; ""IV. Plastic Holocausts: Making It Better""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280451424
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195098471
Additional Edition:
Print version Murder in Our Midst : The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation
Language:
English
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