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are kept separate in space and time, as is

usually the case, both remain opaque, though

they secretly institute each other. But as soon

as they show their complicity, as happens

more and more often today, they illuminate

each other ... (Agamben, 1999, pp. 49–50)

Given the spatial foundations of this state of

exception, the Nazi Holocaust should surely

trouble geography too. dg

Suggested reading

Clare, Doel and McDonough (1996); Friedlan-

der (2007). See also the Israeli Holocaust

Museum at http://www.yadvashem.org.il and

the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

at http://www.ushmm.org.

home An emotive place and spatial imagin-

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N

NORWAY

DENMARK

North Sea

77

NETHERLANDS

GERMANY

160,000

217,000

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

POLAND

3,000,000

RUTHENIA

RUKOVINA

BESSARABIA

200,000

124,632

NORTHERN

TRANSYLVANIA

105,000

ROMANIA

40,000

Black Sea

1,000,000

SOVIET UNION

BELGIUM

24,387

LUXEMBOURC

700

FRANCE

83,000

8,000

Adriatic Sea

ITALY

AUSTRIA

65,000

HUNGARY

200,000

YUGOSLAVIA

Stara Gradiska Zemun

Jesenovac

Laborgrad

Mauthausen

Dachau

Flessenburg

Natzweiler

Drancy

WightDora-Mittelbau

Esterwegen

Theresienstadt

Buchenwald Auschwitz/

Birkenau

Belzec

Lublin-Majdanek

Sobibor

Treblinka

Stutthof

Riga

Moly Trostenets

1942

Bergen-

Belsen

Neuengamme

Ravensbrück

Sachsenhousen

Oranienbarg Chelmno

Gross-

Rosen

60,000

MACEDONIA

7,122

ALBANIA

200

GREECE

65,000

THRACE

COS

120

RHODES

1,700

260

CRETE

LIBYA

Mediterranean Sea

International boundary 1937

Scale 1:17,000,000

0 250 500 kms

0 125 250 miles

Zenithal Equidistant Projection

562

4,221

106,000

728

FINLAND

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

Memel8,000 135,000

Baltic Sea

FREE CITY

OF DANZIG

80,000

ESTONIA

1,000

15

X

X

X

X

X

X

1,000

60,000

FUR

THEST

GERMANADVANCE

holocaust 1: The main concentration camps and estimates of the numbers murdered from each country(from

Dear, 1995)

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