Language:
German
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Buchenwald
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 27-52
Keywords:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Nazi concentration camps in literature
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Czech literature History and criticism
Abstract:
The Czechs were one of the largest national groups among the prisoners of Buchenwald. Most of them were political prisoners, but they comprised prisoners with previous convictions, emigrants, homosexuals, Jews and Roma as well. They also included numerous personalities from politics, the church, business, science, journalism, art and literature. Czech intellectuals began documenting their personal experiences and observations of their imprisonment while the war was still raging. These texts were accompanied by individual poetic responses. Other memoirs followed after the war, accompanied by an increase in works of artistic literature in various genres,which - directly or indirectly - made reference to Buchenwald. Because all these works - today largely forgotten or overlooked - convey profound impressions of camp life and deliver insights into the camp’s processes and mechanisms from a specific perspective, this article sees itself as a first attempt to understand this problematic. It views, briefly presents and classifies the materials available with the goal of providing impulses for ongoing, more intensive examinations of this issue.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110770179-002
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