Debates on the Holocaust.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (336 pages).
- Issues in Historiography .
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719074486; 9780719074486; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1 'The Theory and Practice of Hell':post-war interpretations of the genocide of the Jews; 2 'Eichmann in Jerusalem':war crimes prosecutions and the emergence of Holocaust metanarratives; 3 'The Deputy':bystanders to the Holocaust; 4 'The Realisation of the Unthinkable':searching for the origins of the 'Final Solution'; 5 'National Socialist Extermination Policies': the end of the Cold War and the breakdown of Holocaust metanarratives. 6 'Ordinary Men':rethinking the politics of perpetrator history7 'Like Sheep to the Slaughter':debates on Jewish responses to Nazism; 8 'Holocaust Testimonies':the ruins of memory and Holocaust historiography; CONCLUSION; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; INDEX.
Debates on the Holocaust is the first attempt to survey the development of Holocaust historiography for a generation. It analyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War to the present day, and argues forcefully that history writing is as much about the present as it is the past. The book guides the reader through the major debates in Holocaust historiography and shows how all of these controversies are as much products of their own time as they are attempts to uncover the past. Debates on the Holocaust will app.
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