Murder in Our Midst - The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation

Zusatztext This collection of recent articles is a refreshing example of a historian prepared to think about questions that actually matter! with the unresolved quality of many of the arguments being one of the books's many beguiling features. Klappentext Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust! Industrial Killing! and Representation examines the emergence! implementation! and representation of industrial killing! an inherent and crucial component of modernity whose most extreme manifestation was the Holocaust. The mechanized! impersonal! and sustained mass destruction of human beings! organized and legitimized by states! scientists! jurists! and intellectuals! is rooted in the industrial slaughterhouse of the Great War. In Murder in Our Midst! Omer Bartov argues that the Nazi death factories are best understood in the context of modern warfare! beginning with the First World War. He shows how the way we understand ourselves reflects the ambivalent effects of the Holocaust on our perceptions of war and violence! history and memory! progress and barbarism. Analyzing a wide array of historical texts! works of fiction! films! and museums! Bartov leads the reader from ancient myths of heroism to the trenches of the Western Front! from Thomas Mann's romantic vision of war to Primo Levi's stark depictions of genocide! from colonial war museums to the visual art of the Holocaust. These representations of killing share some of the same important features. They attempt to form coherent images from horrific events! to draw didactic lessons from them! and to use them for political ends. Zusammenfassung Murder in our Midst analyses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in a variety of media - academic histories! popular literature! poetry! cinema! art! memorials! and museums. Bartov addresses such issues as how different cultures have come to terms with the Holocaust and with what effects in times of peace and war.

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• Authors: Omer Bartov, Omer (Associate Professor of History Bartov
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.1996
• EAN: 9780195098488
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509848-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Deutschland, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Cultural Studies, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, Moderne Kriegsführung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater