Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,1 (1997) 1-48
Keywords:
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Traces developments in Holocaust historiography, comparing aims, use of sources, emphases and interpretations in different countries and periods. Notes that the trend is toward increasing differentiation and complexity. In this context, criticizes in detail Goldhagen's tendentiousness as well as his faulty methodology. However, Goldhagen's book is valuable for having turned attention to the motivation of the perpetrators. Antisemitism was a central, though not (as Goldhagen would have it) the only factor in this motivation; just because this fact seems so self-evident, few non-Jewish historians have analyzed it. Calls for urgent and intensive research on the questions raised by Goldhagen and enumerates the many gaps in our knowledge of the history of the Holocaust.
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