Aušvic: skandal za mišljenje ili skandal mišljenja?
Auschwitz: a scandal for opinion or a scandal of opinion?

Author(s): Predrag Krstić
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Holocaust; Auschwitz
Summary/Abstract: In Woody Allen's film Hannah and Her Sisters, one of Hannah's sisters is named Lee. After a short love trip with Hana's husband, she returns home, from which her partner Frederik, an aged, poor and withdrawn painter, does not move. He recounts to her what he did that evening: he was watching another show about the Holocaust, in which they unsuccessfully tried to answer the question of how it was possible. "You missed a very boring television program about Auschwitz. Again gruesome film clips, again asked intellectuals announcing their bewilderment at the systematic murder of millions. The reason they will never be able to answer the question 'How could this have happened?' is because it is the wrong question. Given what people are, the right question is 'Why doesn't it happen more often?'"

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