Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Political Geography
Angaben zur Quelle:
15,6-7 (1996) 457-489
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Space and time Religious aspects
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Two earlier versions were presented in April 1994 to the Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting in San Francisco and the Popular Culture Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago. Demonstrates how the Nazis' quest for "Lebensraum" was necessarily related to their desire for "removal" of the Jews from what was construed as both physical and social space. It was the disappearance of the Jews (the embodiment of the Other in the Nazi worldview) without trace that made the "Living Space" formation for the Nazis possible. The Holocaust is explored through three figures of singularity: exception, extremity, and serial erasure; the latter is different from simple killing because it implies the erasure of the very memory of Jews as a former part of the social space mastered by the Aryans. States that the Holocaust cannot be relativized.
DOI:
10.1016/0962-6298(96)00027-3
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