Abstract
Celan's Todesfuge represents the mechanical death of millions of people in a simple and incomprehensible way. This incomprehensibility is also expressed in the letter from Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers (August 17, 1946): "Human beings simply can't be innocent as they all were in the face of the gas chambers. [...] We are simply not equipped to deal, on a human and political level, with a guilt that is beyond crime and an innocence that is beyond good and virtue.? The attitude toward the incomprehensibility has changed over the last fifty years.
