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Informationen zum Autor Inga Clendinnen is the author of Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991). Reading the Holocaust has won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales. Klappentext More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as unthinkable, as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement and the demoralization that attends it. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, Inga Clendinnens book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible - the practical, human reality - from the unthinkable. Zusammenfassung Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view! Ithis 2002 book seeks to dispel what the author calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict many who try to understand the Holocaust. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beginning; 2. Impediments; Part I. Victims: 3. Witnessing; 4. Resisting; Part II. Perpetrators: 5. Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando; 6. Leaders; 7. The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland; 8. The Auschwitz SS; 9. Representing the Holocaust.
