Concentration camps: the limits of representing history
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Concentration camps: the limits of representing history
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberP940.547243/017
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10293
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Washington, District of Columbia, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2017
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Loose-leaf
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture Series
NotesOccasional Paper for the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.