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Similar to activities and civil movements in the Nazi state, Auschwitz emerged as a locale capable of merging and enveloping fluid identities with unyielding policies that were constantly and consistently set against the inmate. In this way, while the ghetto had served as an interface between the state and its exceptional other, Auschwitz served as the interface between state prescribed rationality and the illegal cruelty which arises in any extreme situation.

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Why is it important?

To understand the formation of the Nazi death camp.

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This page is a summary of: Panopticon's Contradictions, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2295259.
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