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Claudius joins a party of pioneers who are attacked along the Kansas-Missouri border, drawing him back into the bloodshed and killing fields of the "War Between the States". To his list of evil events--"the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the killing fields of Cambodia . Instead of shying away from the scale of the atrocity--be it a killing field, a battlefield, the site of a massacre or in this case the site of a former Nazi death camp--such monuments reuse often vast areas of land in an attempt to freeze history, cast in stone the scale of lost life, and to make something strangely beautiful and moving from something that derives from absolute evil. |
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killing field - (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)