How to name the Holocaust, between, muteness, silence and outcry?
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https://doi.org/10.53981/destrocos.v7i1.64287Keywords:
fascism, ashes, responsibility, myth, cryAbstract
This essay was delivered during the conference ‘What was the Holocaust? A transdisciplinary approach?’ on the panel The Holocaust as seen by Germans in Lisbon in January 2016 and was significantly reworked after reading the essay Changing the name: hiltlerisms, disseminations, and the jewish Schuldfrage by Shajara Néehilan Bensusan, published in Vol. 1, No. 1 (2026) of the journal (Des)troços. This is not a criticism, but rather a comment, in the sense that the subject in question, the Holocaust, affects our present day on different ontological and existential levels, consciously and unconsciously perpetuated against a multiplicity of beings and phenomena. It could even be said that the Holocaust is one of the central expressions of our time, the Anthropocene.
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