Explain and evaluate Bauman’s thesis on the Holocaust and modernity
Explain and evaluate Bauman’s thesis on the Holocaust and modernity
Abstract: Zygmunt Bauman and his work Modernity and the Holocaust have argued that sophisticated and intelligent preparation and execution was required for the Holocaust to function. Historical media as well as popular culture have more often than not portrayed the Nazi Germany and Hitler's regime as barbaric and those that followed Adolf Hitler nothing more than beasts. This essay with the support of Modernity and the Holocaust by Bauman argues that it takes more than beasts to perform a genocide on this grand scale.
Key words: Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman, WW II, systematic elimination, intelligence required for the existence of the Holocaust