15 Th e Interruption of Witnessing: Relations of Distance and Proximity in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Hitler’s Geographies, Nazi Spatialities 1
4. Spatial Cultural Histories of Hitlerism
5. 1 For a Tentative Spatial Theory of the Third Reich 19
6. 2 Holocaust Spaces 45
7. Part I. Third Reich Geographies
8. Section 1 Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Lebensraum
9. 3 In Service of Empire: Geographers at Berlin’s University between Colonial Studies and Ostforschung (Eastern Research) 67
10. 4 The East as Historical Imagination and the Germanization Policies of the Third Reich 93
11. 5 Race contra Space: Th e Confl ict between German Geopolitik and National Socialism 110
12. 6 Back Breeding the Aurochs: Th e Heck Brothers, National Socialism, and Imagined Geographies for Non-Human Lebensraum 138
13. Section 2 Spatial Planning and Geography in the Third Reich
14. 7 National Socialism and the Politics of Calculation 161
15. 8 Applied Geography and Area Research in Nazi Society: Central Place Th eory and Planning, 1933–1945 182
16. 9 A Morality Tale of Two Location Th eorists in Hitler’s Germany: Walter Christaller and August Lösch 198
17. 10 Social Engineering, National Demography, and Political Economy in Nazi Germany: Gottfried Feder and His New Town Concept 218
18. Part II. Geographies of the Third Reich
19. Section 3 Spatialities of the Holocaust
20. 11 Nazi Biopolitics and the Dark Geographies of the Selva 245
21. 12 Geographies of Ghettoization: Absences, Presences, and Boundaries 266
22. 13 Spaces of Engagement and the Geographies of Obligation: Responses to the Holocaust 282
23. 14 Hello Darkness: Envoi and Caveat 299
24. Section 4 Microgeographies of Memory, Witnessing, and Representation
25. 15 Th e Interruption of Witnessing: Relations of Distance and Proximity in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah 313
26. 16 A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography 329
27. 17 What Remains? Sites of Deportation in Contemporary European Daily Life: Th e Case of Drancy 348
28. Acknowledgments 363
29. Contributor Biographies 365
30. Index 369