Who killed the Jews? Reflections on a riddle
TitleWho killed the Jews? Reflections on a riddle
Author
Call number940.5318/0043
Object number05548c
Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Year of publication
2002
Physical descriptionpp51-61
MaterialArticle
ISBN0810119161
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies' Vol.V pp51-61
Description
We know much more about the victims than about the perpetrators. Discusses how we gain access to the perpetrators as human beings, so bound up in the killing machinery, in the process of genocide, in the impersonal bureaucracy of mass murder. Rosenfeld also underscores the importance of art in conveying images of the killers, and the difficulty of identifying and understanding them over half a century after the
Holocaust