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A revisit to the death camps of Nazi Germany...
A revisit to the death camps of Nazi Germany...
Item # 724996
March 14, 1976
BOOK REVIEW SECTION only of the New York Times, March 14, 1976 Beginning on the front page of this section is a editorial on the death camps during the Jewish holocaust in World War II era Nazi Germany.
Compete book review section only with 40 pages, tabloid size, nice condition.
background: The March 14, 1976, front-page review of Terrence Des Pres's The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps marked a watershed moment in Holocaust literature, as critic Alfred Kazin used the platform to confront the "radical evil" of the Nazi system with unflinching detail. Moving away from the then-prevalent psychological theories that suggested survivors suffered from "infantile regression" or "guilt," the review highlighted Des Pres’s thesis that survival was a conscious, heroic act of biological and social resistance. Kazin emphasized the book's focus on the "excremental assault"—the deliberate use of filth by the SS to strip prisoners of their humanity—and how victims maintained their dignity through small, clandestine networks of mutual aid. By bringing these visceral realities to the forefront of the American Sunday paper, the piece challenged readers to view the Holocaust not as a distant tragedy of passivity, but as a testament to the staggering persistence of the human spirit under the most systematic conditions of death ever devised.
Category: The 20th Century
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