Representing the Einsatzgruppen: the outtakes of Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'

Interprets Lanzmann's film as linking past and present , focussing on the past only as it makes itself felt in the present. Discusses why Lanzmann decided to leave out his interviews with the Einsatzgruppen members from 'Shoah'. This analysis exposes the heterogeneity of Holocaust experiences. The experience of Einsatzgruppen victims differed from those interned in concentration camps or sent to an extermination camp and fall outside efforts to frame the Shoah as exemplary of modernity gone awry.