ABSTRACT
The Nazis intended to destroy all Jews. That aim was neither restricted to specific territory nor based primarily on what Jews had done. Instead, the Nazis' apocalyptic ideology defined Jews to be so inferior racially, so threatening, that their existence had to be eliminated root and branch. Some scholars contend, for example, that Nazi Germany's targeting of the Sinti and Roma did not differ substantially from the fate intended for the Jews. Charlotte Delbo was not Jewish, but her arrest for resisting the Nazi occupation of her native France made her experience the Holocaust when she was deported to Auschwitz in January 1943. In 1946, she began to write the trilogy that came to be called Auschwitz and After. Her work's anguished visual descriptions, profound reflections on memory, and diverse writing styles make it an unrivaled Holocaust testimony.
