Camp life created a gray zone binding Nazi and Jew together

Evidence

But the language of the Lager, as an instance of LTI, also articulates another “gray zone,” the area of camp life-that peculiar “life in death” that camp life was-in which both oppressor and victim were partaking. Indeed, one of the troubling and peculiar aspects of camp life has to do with this partaking-not a sharing, but a cooperation that incomparably implicated, although obviously not entirely, the victims in their oppression and extermination. This “gray zone” has left traces in the complex phenomena that have maintained the psychic investment that still binds Nazi and Jew together in many cultural and political sites, rendering the question of comparison particularly thorny, as well as less pertinent. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 679

Categorization

• XREF: The psychic investment binding Nazi and Jew echoes the enmity-genealogy thesis that runs through the whole book.