image of hell

is a description of the concentration camps, meant not as allegory, but she insist, as 'objective' description.

quoted 'To describe the concentration camps sine ira et studio is not to be 'objective,' but to condone them... and such condoning cannot be changed by condemnation which the author may feel duty bound to add but which remains unrelated to the description itself. When I used the image of hell, I did not mean this allegorically but literally . . . In this sense I think that a description of the camps as Hell on earth is more 'objective,' that is, more adequate to their essence than statements of a purely sociological or psychological nature' (Arendt x)

image of hell, n.Definitions

image of hell