Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (1992) 103-130
Keywords:
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Analyzes the "ritual of humiliation" used by the SS in the concentration camps to crush the individuality of the inmates. The degradation of the prisoners, in the SS's view, was a necessary element in their extermination. Although some inmates adopted and internalized their guards' attitudes towards them, many of them developed practical and psychological mechanisms of self-defense. These mechanisms, although individual and selfish, were generally not harmful to other inmates; the world of the concentration camps was not a world of permanent struggle of all against all.
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