Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:06:01 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
Natan Sznaider The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Danny Levy Center for European Studies, Harvard University
IV. THE GLOCALIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAEL, THE US, GERMANY, AND THE WORLD
The idea of the holocaust did not spring full grown from the facts. And yet, surprisingly perhaps, all the facts were there in the beginning. The Nuremberg trials were held in November, 1945, less than 6 months after the invasion of Normandy. There the highest Nazi officials still alive were accused of killing 5.7 million Jews as part of a conscious plan. And then they hung for it. At first sight, you can't get clearer than that. But a closer look reveals an epochal difference between then and now. If you call up the original document on the internet(1), you'll see that it's 226 screen long. But only 3 are taken up with the extermination the Jews. And that is a fairly graphic representation of how the holocaust was originally conceived: as one in an almost endless list of Nazi crimes.
The case was similar with the famous fragments of film. They were