Limit Experiences

Front matter

EASTERN EUROPEAN CULTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETIES 14

Jacek Leociak

Limit Experiences

Part I

1 Topography and Existence akc 35 Romantic HeroizAtion oson E E E EE a a a AWG 36 MOMS CHUA CUS MOON AO OAZY 63 Divided City wew a 79 Metaphors Gf the Ghetto ei dA OE AA 91

2 Bombardment coach aO dita 123

The Target: Civilian: Morale sdn OR O A AW Ad cantevds Bombardment in the Second World War Preliminary Stage o WON OWA N AEO Bombing and Morality ss ass ew sess sasdsavseibarsuiveasatensontoneseddssevtavenveantntevs 138 Total Waf wozy owned a O AAAA dg GEY 140

6 Contents

Ambivalence

Accounts by Victims

Perpetrators Accounts

ODSEr VETS zywa awa EET WAY German Attitudes: „mia A A KA ORO E NRS Timothy Garton Ash and Kevin Alfred Strom 00.0.0... esceseseeesseeseeeeseens 174 Part II F LGOKS i O eee 183 IBA CES m extremis iz a GR e Gd GA 189 Before Marching off to the Front... eee 204 Types of Damaged Photographs... seen zaa 214 Kinds of Damage The Private Photography cisscscoitisessscssrsoesscessseaeccocsssassonsecsssrvontesesusnnsessresocaeevedtes 216 Glandestine Photographs w aiw AO OW EE 220 Interpretive Tropes ai O A O EO Ai Wii Damage as a Stigma of the Holocaust oo... cess zaa Damage as a Vestige of the Holocaust...

Damage as a Metonym for the Holocaust

A boy:fromt (he Łódz Ghetto ui awizo We a EA 230

Fateweliy doda ona ddd dA NA BRO O AA AGO 236

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4 Encounters with a Corpse ao OO AA 245 The Postmórtem Dissection «.ccsssccccsersceccssrscoccserscescserncoscserscedesescesessracescsstacess 247 Between the Grotesque and the Sublime occ uwaa 271

The Earth Discloses Its Corpses ..i..i.sississiesscesessecsesseseosseseoesotescesevs ces ens vie vss 277 Contemporary ANNONE «swisi ao 282 Ancient Tradition wasi wia A A 283

The Inhumanity of the Twentieth Century esse n na 286

“A: City Engulted: by Plague add W AOI 288