二战期间,德国纳粹在希特勒种族主义煽动下对犹太人发动了惨绝人寰的屠杀和清洗,这些有步骤的消灭犹太人的计划和行动被后世称之为“大屠杀(the Holocaust)”。以此为主题,战后涌现出了大量的文学作品,其中有传记、报告文学,也有小说,统称为大屠杀文学。大屠杀文学传统历经两个阶段的发展和嬗变:早期的幸存者文学和后期的非幸存者文学。幸存 During the Second World War, German Nazis launched a brutal massacre and cleansing of Jews under the instigation of Hitler racism. These step-by-step plans to eradicate Jews and their actions were later described as “the Holocaust.” On this theme, there emerged a large number of literary works after the war, including biography, reportage and novels, collectively referred to as genocide literature. The Holocaust literary tradition has undergone two stages of development and evolution: early survivor literature and later non-survivor literature. Survival