Nazi Settler Colonialism
Updated 2024-04-03
2024-03-11 The Zone of Interest Is a Film About the Nazi Official as a Settler Hannah Arendt’s (by now highly cliched) notion of the “banality of evil,” a phrase she coined while covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, known as the “architect of the Holocaust.”
But Arendt’s own refusal to interrogate the inherently colonial nature of European fascism, a refusal inseparable from her own racism and Western chauvinism, has blunted the sharpness of that term’s capacity for critical insight. Yes, the Holocaust was engineered by middle managers, but to what end? What did they get out of the horrific affair, besides satiating their sadism?https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/zone-of-interest-nazis-settlers
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