Archiv für Dezember 2015

From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn: The Atrocities and Trial of Heinz Barth

Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany’s secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi’s lengthy investigati…

The Austrian Connection: SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik and His Staff in the Lublin District

The Office of the SS and Police Leader in the Lublin District under Odilo Globocnik contributed to two objectives of Nazi rule in Poland: the murder of the Jews and „Germanization.“ Globocnik’s enormous activism is often explained by his socialization…

Intellectuals at Auschwitz: Jean Amery and Primo Levi on the Mind and Its Limits

For Jean Améry, the uselessness of intellectual culture in the „borderline situation“ of Auschwitz proved the essential incompetence of the intellect as such. For Primo Levi, the intellect served as a precious resource in dealing with the reali…

Hybrid Testimony and Moral Indictment: A Survivor’s Poetic Response to the Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp Experience

Poetry is rarely accorded the same testimonial and documentary status as diaries and memoirs, which have been largely accepted as subjective forms of historical accounts. The author of this article argues that more traditional forms of Holocaust survi…

Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/3/478?rss=1

Next to Babi Yar: The Syrets Concentration Camp and the Evolution of Nazi Terror in Kiev

Drawing on the concept of the concentration camp, this examination of the history of the Syrets camp near Kiev traces the principle stages of Nazi terror, exploitation, and extermination in the occupied capital of the Ukraine. The author locates Syret…

Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/3/481?rss=1

La Revue nouvelle | 8/2015

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/revuenouvelle/issue/2015-12-30.html

Il Mulino | 6/2015

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/ilmulino/issue/2015-12-30.html

pARTisan | 29 (2015)

Intellectual resistance