Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sofsky, Wolfgang

Titel

Violent Excesses

Ist Teil von

• The Order of Terror, 2013, p.223-240

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Human bestiality is inventive. It appeared in countless variants in the camps. There was spontaneous killing, routine flogging, tormenting of prisoners out of a sense of tedium, and collective massacre during searches. Nonetheless, murders for reasons of passion were relatively rare. Many acts of brutality took place without aggression, rage, or feelings of revenge. For that reason, they cannot be likened to the mad frenzy of those who run amok or the bloody deeds of soldiers who overcome their battlefield anxieties by cutting down anything that moves. Ecstasy and panic were alien to the excesses in the camp. Few perpetrators