Figuring the Grey Zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkammando in contemporary culture
TitelFiguring the Grey Zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkammando in contemporary culture
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Call numberS940.5318/005
Inventarnummer05556ME
ErscheinungsortLondon, England
VerlagRoutledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Formatpp141-157
MaterialArtikel
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust studies: a journal of culture and history',Vol 25, nos 1-2, 2019 pp141-157
Beschreibung
Discusses the ways in which the Auschwitz Sonderkammando figure in the film The Grey Zone (2001) and the comic book Magneto: Testament (2009). The author shows how the generic conventions of gangster films and superhero stories allow The Grey Zone and Magneto to address both the moral questions of the Sonderkommando's position and the ways in which they are able to bear witness