The_Holokaust_-_origins,_implementation,_aftermath

REMEMBERING IN VAIN
l’histoire.
6. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (Paris: Payot, 1980), p. 218; E. F. N. Jephcott,
tr., Minima Moralia (London: NLB, 1974).
7. Edgar Faure, Introduction to La Persécution des Juifs en France et dans les autres
pays de l’Ouest (Paris: Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, 1947), p.
24.
8. Paul Valery, “La crise de l’esprit,” in Variété I (Paris: Gallimard, 1978), p. 15.
9. “Reason can’t linger over the wounds inflicted on individuals, for individual destinies
are swallowed up in the universal destiny.” Hegel, La Raison dans l’Histoire
(Paris: Union Generale D’Editions, 1965), p. 68; Robert S. Hartman, tr., Reason in
History (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953).
10. V. Jankélévitch, L’Impréscriptible (Paris: Seuil, 1986), p. 43.
11. Quoted by Shulamit Volkov, in L’Allemagne nazie et le génocide juif, Colloquium
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris: Gallimard-Seuil, 1985),
p. 83.
12. Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, tr. Stuart Woolf (New York: Collier-Macmillan,
1961), p. 96. First published as If This is a Man (New York: Orion, 1959).
13. Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, p. 96.
14. Ilya Ehrenbourg, La Russie en guerre (Paris: Gallimard, 1968), pp. 45–46; Gerard
Shelley, tr., Russia at War (London: H. Hamilton, 1943).
15. Hearing of July 1, 1987.
16. I borrow this expression from Hannah Arendt, who uses it in several of her works,
notably in Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace, World, 1968).
17. Marcel Merle, Le Procès de Nuremberg et le châtiment des criminels de guerre
(Paris: Pedonc, 1949), p. 158.
18. Of course we had to wait until the sixties to see this struggle culminate and result
in equal rights. But it was in November 1945—that is, scarcely six months after
the unconditional surrender of the German army—that the American Jewish Congress
created a Commission on Law and Social Action with a view toward helping
all those who suffered from discrimination. Thus, President Truman rightly noted
in his Memoirs: “Hitler’s persecution of the Jews did much to awaken Americans
to the dangerous extremes to which prejudice can be carried if allowed to control
government actions.” Quoted in Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European
Jews (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 761.
19. Paul Ricoeur, Le Temps raconté, Temps et Récit III (Paris: Seuil, 1985), p. 273.
20. “If we Algerians are to have any place whatsoever in this trial, it is not as witnesses
for the defense, on behalf of Barbie, but as witnesses for the prosecution, in
the name of the rights of Man that legitimize our own struggle.” Hocine Ait Ahmed
and Mohammed Harbi, in Le Nouvel Observateur, no. 1183, July 10, 1987.
21. Jacques Vergès, Je défends Barbie (Paris: Jean Piccolec, 1988), p. 13.
22. For example, here is what one could read in the section devoted to the Barbie trial
in the weekly newspaper Algérie-Actualité (no. 1127, week of May 21–27, 1987)
entitled, bluntly. “What do Jews Want”
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