invisible crime: Nazi politics of memory and postwar representation of the Holocaust

Discourses on the Holocaust and on memory have often aroused the suspicion that the Nazi perpetrators not only planned the physical annihilation of the Jews, but also wanted to erase them 'from history and memory'. "Auschwitz" the supposedly industrial method of killing became the emblem of the Nazi genocide. The gas chamber was highlighted as the specific killing technique of the Holocaust. What happened inside is not only not visible but is considered to be unpresentable and incomprehensible. In all media and formats the centre of the crime is blocked out