GERMAN 3252 Lecture 7: The Drowned and the Saved
23 Feb 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
• The Saved and the Drowned
o What is a Mussellman
• Derogatory term used for prisoners not doing well, sick
• Comes from Muslim word
• Binary Pairs
o Good/evil
o Drowned/saved
o Cowards/courageous
• The victims
o Asocial elements
• Poor
• Alcoholics
• Prostitutes
o Wannsee Conference
• Plan to exterminate through work
▪ Starvation
▪ Labor
▪ Torture
▪ Physical abuse
• Four months
• 700-1400 cal
o Defense mechanism
• Objectification -> language -> first steps
o Memory??
• So weak -> no memory
• The Saved
o Schepschel (the 'opportunist')
• Thievery, entertainment, favors -> power
o Alfred L. (the 'Prominent')
• Disciplined, façade, rivals, dominator
o Elias (the 'Brute')
• Thief, mad, criminal, fringes
o Henri (the Sympathetic)
• User, sympathies, seduction , objectification, utility
o The Drowned
• The Musselmann
o The individual
• V
o The historical event
• The masses and the exceptional
• Meaningless suffering
• No stories
▪ Memory, struggle, cognition, breath, beat
• Schindler's List
o The 1990s
• Anniversary of holocaust -> 50 years
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
