Prezentacja Słownika polskiej literatury wojny i okupacji na przykładzie hasła hitlerowiec/nazista
Hitlerite/Nazi – A Dictionary Entry

Summary/Abstract: The author’s entry reconstructs the evolution of the term “hitlerowiec” (Hitlerite) in Polishliterature and culture; from occupation-era folklore and postwar demonization to currentpop-culture transformations. The author highlights the tensions between the terms“Hitlerite,” “Nazi,” and “Fascist” by examining their functioning in the discourse of the PolishPeople’s Republic and after 1989. The article discusses literary portraits of the perpetrator:the sadist, the technocrat, the intellectual, the mystic, but also the figure of the femaletorturer. In dialogue with the concept of the banality of evil from Eichmann in Jerusalemby Hannah Arendt, the text traces a shift from martyrology to the eroticization andaestheticization of the executioner in popular culture, raising questions about the originand representation of evil.

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