Language:
German
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Buchenwald
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 167-197
Keywords:
Bettelheim, Bruno Criticism and interpretation
;
Federn, Ernst Criticism and interpretation
;
Kautsky, Benedikt, Criticism and interpretation
;
Kogon, Eugen, Criticism and interpretation
;
Neurath, Paul Martin, Criticism and interpretation
;
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps Psychological aspects
;
Nazi concentration camps Social aspects
;
National socialism Research
Abstract:
This text compares and discusses early publications by five authors who were deported from Vienna to concentration camps after Austria’s so-called Anschluss with the German Reich in 1938. In their analyses, Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), Ernst Federn (1914-2007), Benedikt Kautsky (1894-1960), Eugen Kogon (1903-1987) and Paul M. Neurath (1911-2001) drew on their own experiences with modes of thinking from the fields of the social sciences and psychoanalysis. Their aimwas to formulate general statements about life under extreme conditions, going beyond the perspective of the eyewitness. This analysis reconstructs the genesis of these texts and their reception. Ultimately, it asks why “Austrians” seem to be overrepresented, as it were, among early analysts of the camp.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110770179-007
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