The Deterritorialization of Responsibility: Levinas, Derrida, and Ethics after the End of Philosophy

happened that people who lived near German concentration camps didn't do anything, didn't help . . . maybe the best explanation as to why people didn't stop the massacre is given by a Polish villager from present-day Treblinka in Claude Lanzmann 's documentary Shoah who, in answer to the question whether they were afraid for the Jews, answered that if he cut his finger it hurt him, not the other person. Yes, they knew about the Jews, the convoys, the fact that they were taken into the camp and vanished. Poles worked their land right next to the barbed wire and heard awful screams. At first it was unbear-