Images of the Holocaust

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"Tim Cole argues that every period and place has created its own myth of the Nazi atrocities. Trying to infuse comfort through myths, an essential aspect of the past was lost: from a desexualised Americanised Anne Frank, the Israeli propaganda surrounding the Eichmann trial, to the modern commercialism of Schindler's List, religious colonialism at Auschwitz, and the nationalism of memorials at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The danger of this mythologising is that it opens the door to revisionism and denial of the Holocaust." "In Krakow tourists now visit the street where Steven Spielberg filmed the girl in the red dress. At the Washington memorial museum interactive role-play suggests that half of the victims survived. Soon we will have consumed the Shoah."--Jacket