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Desde El Juicio a Eichmann Sobre El Nazismo, La Shoá Y Su Banalización Desde el juicio a Eichmann Sobre el nazismo, la Shoá y su banalización Gustavo Daniel Perednik UNIVERSIDAD ORT Uruguay Desde el juicio a Eichmann Sobre el nazismo, la Shoá y su banalización Gustavo Daniel Perednik Ediciones Universidad ORT Uruguay 2014 KAFKANIA - Un recorrido por el mundo de Kafka Armado de tapa: Erica Yac Imagen alterada digitalmente, tomada de: http://search.clearch.org/?a=images&q=totenkopft%20cap Revisión de texto: Niobe Castelli Universidad ORT Uruguay Montevideo, Junio 2014 ISBN: 978-9974-8379-7-3 - ISBN: 978-9974-8467-3-9 (en línea) ÍNDICE Prólogo del autor ..........................................................................................9 Parte 1: La conciencia colectiva 1. El Bar Mitzva de Israel ..........................................................................15 2. Adolf Eichmann sin disfraz ....................................................................23 3. Recorrido Eichmann...............................................................................29 4. Captura y juicio ......................................................................................35 5. Núremberg complementado ...................................................................41 Parte 2: Qué fue la Shoá 1. El siglo XIX agorero ..............................................................................49 2. Judeofobia y modernización ..................................................................55 3 Un océano de odio ..................................................................................63 4.Alemania y los judíos ..............................................................................71 Parte 3: Sadismología 1. Vocabulario y degradación .....................................................................81 2. La constricción moral ............................................................................87 3. La bavarie ...............................................................................................93 4. Las formas del sadismo ..........................................................................99 Parte 4: Los perpetradores 1. La ideologización .................................................................................107 2. Los jerarcas ..........................................................................................113 3. De malandra a político .........................................................................119 4. La obsesión demencial .........................................................................125 Parte 5: Cuando la ley no alcanza 1. Los Derechos Humanos a partir de Eichmann .....................................133 2. Cero, no fue ..........................................................................................139 3. El síndrome Paty du Clam ...................................................................145 4. La judeofobia argentina de marras .......................................................151 5 Desde el juicio a Eichmann - Sobre el nazismo, la Shoá y su banalización Parte 6: La banalización 1. Arendt en Jerusalem .............................................................................159 2. La refutación ........................................................................................165 3. El fraude ...............................................................................................171 4. Burocratismo ........................................................................................177 Parte 7: Los grandes debates 1. Funcionalistas e intencionalistas ..........................................................185 2. El sempiterno objetivo final .................................................................191 3. Dawidowicz frente a Hilberg ...............................................................197 4. Sonderweg ............................................................................................203 5. Goldhagen ............................................................................................211 5. Otros debates ........................................................................................217 Parte 8: Las perversiones 1. La esencia del nazismo .......................................................................223 2. Distorsiones frecuentes ........................................................................231 3. Revisionismo .......................................................................................239 4. Negacionismo ......................................................................................245 Parte 9: Un mundo conteste 1. La reacción de la víctima ....................................................................255 2. Dos tanteos ...........................................................................................261 3. La disonancia cognitiva .......................................................................267 4. El dilema del rescate ............................................................................273 5. La Iglesia ..............................................................................................279 6. Teología del Holocausto .......................................................................285 Parte 10: Ideas para el educador 1. Enseñar la singularidad .......................................................................295 2. Un debate disparador ...........................................................................297 3. Preguntas al educador ..........................................................................297 4. Siete dilemas de ejemplo ....................................................................299 Índice onomástico ....................................................................................304 Bibliografía básica ...................................................................................311 6 Gustavo D. Perednik ¿Cómo los alemanes, esos arribistas de la fatalidad, habrían perdonado a los judíos que tuvieran un destino superior al suyo? Las persecuciones nacen del odio y no del desprecio; pero el odio equivale a un reproche que uno no osa hacerse a sí mismo… Los alemanes detestaban en el judío su sueño realizado, la universalidad que ellos no podían alcanzar1. Emile Ciorán, 1956 De nadie puede decirse algo más honroso: que los enemigos mortales de la civilización tienen fundadas razones para perseguirlos2. Ludwig von Mises, 1944 1 Emile M. Cioran: La tentación de existir (1956), en el capítulo Un pueblo de solitarios, editorial Taurus Humanidades, Buenos Aires, 1990, página 68. 2 Ludwig von Mises: Gobierno omnipotente (1944), originalmente publicado por Yale University Press; en 2013 fue publicada la edición en español por Unión Editorial. 7 Desde el juicio a Eichmann - Sobre el nazismo, la Shoá y su banalización 8 Gustavo D. Perednik Prólogo Es difícil imaginar la repetición de un evento cargado de tanto dramatismo como el enjuiciamiento en Jerusalem, por parte de un Estado hebreo renacido, y en nombre del pueblo judío masacrado, al máximo ejecutor de la “Solución Final”. Seguramente nunca hubo antes tanta justicia concentrada. El juicio a Eichmann comenzó en la capital israelí el 11 de abril de 1961; el reo era acusado de quince cargos catalogados como crímenes de lesa humanidad. Tanto en Israel como en el exterior, los medios cubrieron día a día el testimonio de más de cien testigos, la gran mayoría de ellos sobrevivientes de los campos, y se dieron a conocer más de 1500 documentos sobre su padecimiento. Exactamente ocho meses después, el 11 de diciembre de 1961, el genocida fue declarado culpable y, siete meses más tarde, luego de apelaciones y de un pedido de clemencia al Presidente, se procedió a la ejecución3, la única vez que se aplicó la pena de muerte en el Estado hebreo. En ese sentido, el Israel moderno sigue fiel al principio talmúdico de que la pena de muerte debe existir como último recurso y ser aplicada con extrema infrecuencia. En efecto, hace unos dos milenios las autoridades rabínicas advertían que el Sanedrín no debía aplicar la pena de muerte “ni siquiera cada siete años”4; un rabí más exigente5 extendió la veda a siete décadas. Con motivo del medio siglo cumplido desde del ajusticiamiento de Eichmann, la Universidad ORT Uruguay decidió señalar la fecha por medio de una serie de conferencias. El Coordinador de Estudios Judaicos de ORT, David Telias, me sugirió su preparación. Propuse dos disertaciones: una sobre el significado del caso Eichmann desde el punto de vista judío, y otra que lo analizara desde un punto de vista universal. Esta última se basaría en un artículo que había publicado varios años antes: Sapiencia psicológica desde Eichmann6. 3 El 1 de junio de 1962. 4 Mishná Makot 1:10. 5 Eleazar Ben Azariá. 6 El Catoblepas, junio de 2006, página 5. 9 Desde el juicio a Eichmann - Sobre el nazismo, la Shoá y su banalización Me sumergí en el tema en la misma época en la que confeccionaba una breve lista de posibilidades para un libro, el séptimo a ser publicado por la Universidad ORT Uruguay. Tan vasto era el espectro cubierto por el tema de las conferencias, que me pareció que su temática sería la más apropiada para el libro. Y pusimos manos a la obra. El 1 de julio de 2012 recibí el siguiente correo electrónico: “Estimado Gustavo, me alegra que te hayas entusiasmado con el tema. Lo tenía rondándome en la cabeza hacía un tiempito. Te recomiendo que busques el libro de Alain Finkelkraut La mémoire vaine, sobre el crimen contra la humanidad a raíz del caso Klaus Barbie. Fue
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