Nothing he hasn’t done, nowhere he hasn’t been
Adam Shatz: Claude Lanzmann, 5 April 2012
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne.
Atlantic, 528 pp., £25, March 2012,978 1 84887 360 5 Show More
by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne.
Atlantic, 528 pp., £25, March 2012,
“... without archival footage, newsreels or a single corpse. Lanzmann ‘showed nothing at all’, Godard complained. That was because there was nothing to show: the Nazis had gone to great lengths to conceal the extermination; for all their scrupulous record-keeping, they left behind no photographs of death in the gas chambers of Birkenau or the gas trucks in ... ”