Tigermedia - Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention and How People Resist
Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention and How People Resist
Date: November 12th, 2020
Duration:
59m:35s
This lecture took place on November 12, 2020 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, "The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide" - http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/
The development of the German concentration camp system reveals how ruling parties engineer mass detention of civilians without trial. While the horrors of Nazi extermination camps remain unique in history, the first several years of German concentration camps parallel how governments in other places and times have adopted mass detention for similar political purposes. Andrea Pitzer, author and journalist, discusses what gives rise to camps, including why their use expanded exponentially in the last decade, and what strategies have been successful in opposing them. Presented in partnership with the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center. For more information about the KHC at Queensborough Community College, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu