“80 years after the release of Auschwitz, memory and fractures”

Eighty years ago, the Allied armies entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. The release of Buchenwald and Ravensbrück would follow. The world discovered horror in the middle of chaos: thousands of men and women, political opponents, resistant, persecuted Jews for their sole belonging to the people of the promise. Cohorts from Lazarus came out of hell.

The sight of these survivors, the story of their ordeal were a shock; We may know its existence, but its magnitude? But his exact nature: this methodical design of exterminating the Jews, as eternal scapegoats of history, provoked a metaphysical shock: how could man have conceived such a plan perfected by scientific and industrial progress? Was it the work of the Devil or, on the contrary, of the Commune Humanité in its black folds? What meaning had life under these conditions?

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