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Article: "Forgetting extermination is part of extermination". (Advertorial).
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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(Jean-Luc Godard)
The images conjured up in our minds by Nazi concentration and extermination camps are generally confused and stereotyped: heaps of skeleton-like corpses, emaciated faces, sunken eyes, barbed wire and watchtowers.
The way in which photos of the camps have been dealt over the past fifty years has fluctuated. In the post-war period, there was a spontaneous desire to show them without prudence or reserve, as if they were sufficient in themselves. This painful but haphazard approach was replaced in later years by a more measured dissemination, dictated by the idea of reconciliation with Germany.
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