Concentration camps: the limits of representing history
TitleConcentration camps: the limits of representing history
Author
Call numberP940.547243/017
Object number10293
Place of publicationWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Year of publication
2017
MaterialLoose-leaf
Series titleJoseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture Series
NotesOccasional Paper for the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Description
Asks how should historians tell the story of Auschwitz and other Nazi camps? How should they write about crimes that seem to defy explanation and defeat language? Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann reflects on these questions, discussing the challenges of capturing the voices of Nazi victims, perpetrators, and onlookers.