Encumbered remembrance: the controversy about the incomparability of National-Socialist mass crimes
TitleEncumbered remembrance: the controversy about the incomparability of National-Socialist mass crimes
Author
Call number940.5318072/0050
Object number07295h
Place of publicationAtlantic Highlands, New Jersey, United States
PublisherHumanities Press
Year of publication
1994
Physical descriptionpp63-73
MaterialArticle
ISBN1573925916
NotesArticle from the book 'Forever in the shadow of Hitler'pp63-73
Description
To support the singularity of Auschwitz, the administrative and mechanical form in which mass murders were carried out are cited. The image of the bureaucratic executioner who pursues his annihilation with stamps and files, continues to shock us today. Included is a letter by Karl Dietrich Bracher to the editor of the 'Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung', Sept. 6, 1986, discussing the comparability of the Nationalist-Socialist and Communist policy of mass murder