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8 - Perpetrator Depictions of Violence and the Obliteration of Evidence

from Part I - Structures, Players, and Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2025

By
Valerie Hébert
Edited by
Mary Fulbrook  and
Jürgen Matthäus
Mary Fulbrook
Affiliation:
University College London
Jürgen Matthäus
Affiliation:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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This chapter depicts the creation, use, and proliferation of imagery by regime propaganda and individuals (despite censorship and prohibitions); discusses problems of the “Nazi gaze” (vis-à-vis victim-generated imagery) and relevance of perpetrator imagery for scholarly analysis (beyond historiography); elimination of corpses (SK 1005) and sites in their interrelation with Nazi attempts to destroy incriminating evidence, and to control messaging and the spatial/physical dimensions of mass violence.

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Nazi progadandaimagerymass violenceevidence

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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 193 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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