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Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation examines the emergence, implementation, and representation of industrial killing, an inherent and crucial component of modernity whose most extreme manifestation was the Holocaust.
The mechanized, impersonal, and sustained mass destruction of human beings, organized and legitimized by states, scientists, jurists, and intellectuals, is rooted in the industrial slaughterhouse of the Great War. In Murder in Our Midst, Omer Bartov argues that the Nazi death factories are best understood in the context of modern warfare, beginning with the First World War.
He shows how the way we understand ourselves reflects the ambivalent effects of the Holocaust on our perceptions of war and violence, history and memory, progress and barbarism.
Analyzing a wide array of historical texts, works of fiction, films, and museums, Bartov leads the reader from ancient myths of heroism to the trenches of the Western Front, from Thomas Mann's romantic vision of war to Primo Levi's stark depictions of genocide, from colonial war museums to the visual art of the Holocaust. These representations of killing share some of the same important features.
They attempt to form coherent images from horrific events, to draw didactic lessons from them, and to use them for political ends.
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Historiography, Massamoorden, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures, Holocaust, Museums, Genocide, Judenvernichtung, Musées, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Representatie (algemeen), Holocauste, 1939-1945, au cinéma, Historiographie, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Geschiedschrijving, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Génocide, War crimes, Ethnic conflict & genocide, General & miscellaneous historiography, Media - general & miscellaneous, Holocaust - general & miscellaneous, World war ii - general & miscellaneous, Historical films, Jewish historiography, Holocaust - study & teacShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Murder in our midst: the Holocaust, industrial killing, and representation
1996, Oxford University Press
in English
0195098471 9780195098471
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-235) and index.
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