Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,3 (1988) 257-265
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
A paper presented at the "Remembering for the Future" conference, Oxford, July 1988. Contends that the recent trend of "normalization" of historical writing on the Holocaust (e.g. public opinion, daily life under the Nazis, bureaucratic obfuscation), far from constituting a moral evasion, may help to confront and understand the Holocaust and how it happened. Gives examples from studies of racialism as social policy, Nazi economic policy, the Polish government-in-exile, Vatican wartime policy, etc. For the implementation of their policies, the Nazis relied upon a vast, European-wide apparatus, the passive complicity of a huge body of European opinion, and the indifference of a world-wide audience of bystanders.
Note:
Appeared also in "Remembering for the Future" (1989).
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