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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 35–55.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sven Kramer Harun Farocki's silent film Respite (2007) presents footage from the Nazi camp at Westerbork that was commissioned by the camp's commander and filmed by its inmates. Using varying aesthetic strategies, including the insertion of on-screen commentary and the reuse of images while...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 49–70.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Rüdiger Campe Georg Lukács’s argument of form and formation is traced from The Theory of the Novel to History and Class Consciousness , especially “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat.” The concept of form in The Theory of the Novel is compared to the contemporary philosophy...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
...David Gramling This article considers the Nazi concentration camps as sites of an epistemological collision between monolingualism and multilinguality—one that Holocaust studies has not come to full conceptual terms with. Gramling argues that this collision offers a primary, though undertheorized...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in displaced persons (DP) camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet control as a result of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, first in labor camps in the Soviet interior and then, with their release after the German...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 137–165.
Published: 01 August 2013
...James A. Van Dyke This article examines the exiled German artist George Grosz's Interregnum , a print portfolio published in New York in 1936, in particular Grosz's depiction of the interrogation and torture of political prisoners such as Erich Mühsam in the concentration camps established after...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 31–47.
Published: 01 August 2010
...David Bathrick The Hollywood director Billy Wilder was involved in three postwar films about Germany: a twenty-two-minute documentary about the concentration camps titled Death Mills (1945) that he edited; the other two, which he directed and coscripted, were the feature films A Foreign Affair...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 159–196.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and ideas equally. The strongest critique of the Humboldt model came from the liberal camp (Dahrendorf) that wanted to modernize the German university by emphasizing the needs of the labor market. Parallels to the more recent American corporate university are briefly discussed at the end. © 2011 by New...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 155–164.
Published: 01 November 2012
... versions of surviving Auschwitz are explicable by comparing and contrasting Levi's and Borowski's actual camp experience and the context under which they produced their testimonies. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 Shame and beyond Shame Timothy E...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... argues that Thalheim offers an alternative approach to the Holocaust through an innovative aesthetic treatment of the space of Auschwitz as both a historical and a contemporary site. Yet in his zeal to avoid duplicating iconic images of the camp, Thalheim fails to generate a new representational scheme...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Manuel Köppen Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor (2001) and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation (2004) are contrasting cinematic documentaries that return the viewer to German concentration camps in Poland. While Lanzmann insists on the pathos of the primary witness, whose words, like the places...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Siobhan Kattago Abstract As the war in Syria and the destruction of the Calais camp in France in 2016 bitterly demonstrate, declarations of human rights and asylum devolve into empty promises without a common sense of solidarity and an implicit understanding that we share responsibility...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 87–100.
Published: 01 November 2007
... priest, Jean Bernard, who had been imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp since the previous May, was “freed” for a nine-day period, which he spent with his siblings at home in Luxem- burg. On February 25 he returned to the camp, and on August 5 he was fi nally released for good. In 1945 he...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
... Auschwitz fearing death means fearing worse than death, namely, the systematic production of the death-in-life that was the essence of the rationality of the camps (ND, 368–73). While it is evident that Adorno means his remarks to urge us toward a deeper respect for our animality, our living being...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 173–195.
Published: 01 February 2020
... principles of the camps” as “archival” ( Staging the Archive , 208 ), and Richard Crownshaw argues that “archival violence” is “contiguous from ghetto to museum” ( “Reconsidering Postmemory,” 227 ). 9. These terms are fundamental to the argument made in my monograph, What Remains: The Post-Holocaust...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
Published: 01 February 2020
... in front of his eyes, we learn about her death in a concentration camp. Lipuš’s story is based on autobiographical experiences and has much in common with Haderlap’s novel (i.e., the child’s perspective and the portrait of contaminated landscapes) but differs from it in various ways (i.e., the second...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 61–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of this multipart docudrama is followed by a brief shot of people in concentration camp uniforms performing heavy labor. The docudrama’s second part opens in a similar way, but the prisoners are faded out of the pic- ture as though they had dissolved into thin air (fi g. 1). The brevity of the shots...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... misconstrued. Rather than refer directly to the fate that awaits the Silbersteins, specifically, their likely death in one of the Aktion Reinhard death camps, in a Polish or Baltic ghetto, or in Auschwitz, the film alludes to it indirectly in the characters’ affective responses 3. Quotations...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 61–81.
Published: 01 February 2009
... thinking on the basis of a central metaphor employed in Origins, that of the concentration camp as a place of 1. See Hannah Arendt, “A Reply,” Review of Politics 15 (1953): 79. Hereafter cited as R. Unless otherwise noted, all italics in this essay are mine. For a nuanced discussion...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of the perpetrators’ potential for complexity. All this does not mean that perpetrator characters in Israeli fiction published prior to the eighties lack complexity. Major Kunda, the commandant of the Nazi labor camp in Moshe Shamir’s short story “The Second Stutter” (1945), stutters out orders for executions...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 103–124.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . 18. Benjamin, “Storyteller,” 83 . 17. Taylor, Archive and the Repertoire , 4, 17 . 16. Benjamin, “Storyteller,” 91 . 15. See Hirsch and Stewart, “Introduction,” 262 . 14. Wolf, “Halfmoon Files,” 167 . These camps were identified as “show camps.” Tourists...