Claude Lanzmann’s Einsatzgruppen Interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12903994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Vice (0000-0002-4772-7739, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 51-74 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2011.11087292 |
| OpenAlex | W1535419121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay explores the interviews that Claude Lanzmann secretly recorded with two former members of the wartime Einsatzgruppen, preserved in the archive of outtake material from his 1985 film Shoah. The Einsatzgruppen, who undertook mass shootings in the occupied Soviet Union, are a category of perpetrator Lanzmann has often been criticised for omitting from Shoah. This essay argues that there is much of value in the Einsatzgruppen interviews, including the cinematographic effects of the secret filming, a productive tension between dialogue and image, and a notably performative version of Lanzmann’s persona as interviewer, all of which contributes to a filmic representation of mass murder and its effects on the perpetrators. However, I conclude that there is indeed no place aesthetically or ideologically for the Einsatzgruppen material in Shoah
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanities · Ideology · Interview · Performative utterance · Persona · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Soviet union · The Holocaust · Anthropology · European history and politics · German History and Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |