Lessons and Legacies I

Download or read book Lessons and Legacies I written by Peter Hayes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly half a century after the Nazi massacre of the Jews in Europe, the Holocaust is now moving from the domain of experience to that of history. It is becoming the subject of recorded rather than living memory. Is real comprehension of the development and horror of the Nazi onslaught accessible to us? If so, through what intellectual processes or categories of understanding, and in the face of what temptations or diversions? How can we preserve, expand, and apply our knowledge of why and how barbarity came to prevail? What meaning can present and future generations derive from the catastrophe? These are the vital questions addressed by the essays in this volume.