Tag: history, holocaust

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term “death camps” implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term “death camps” implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it.