Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,5 (2010) 454-468
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
The changes that were brought about by the end of the Cold War made historians reconsider the dominant historiographical explanations of the Holocaust. Outlines tendencies in the new Holocaust historiography. Ideological imperatives as an explanation for the Holocaust have returned to the scholarship in the form of "modified intentionalism". The Holocaust is increasingly seen as but one of several inseparable processes of genocide. Numerous Nazi accomplices in the Holocaust, both pro-Axis states and individuals, tend to be seen as parties interested in their own "solution of the Jewish question", rather than simply Nazi "puppets". The opening of archives in former communist countries has allowed historians to "discover" Eastern Europe as the heart of the genocidal process and to revise the role of Auschwitz and other death camps in it. The renewed emphasis on plunder and looting as motivating factors is now applicable not only to individuals, but also at the macro level. Many historians tend to situate the Holocaust in the context of imperialism and colonialism; argues against some exaggerations made by historians who follow these tendencies. In post-communist Europe, the collapse of the postwar anti-fascist consensus had a complex impact on Holocaust consciousness.
DOI:
10.1080/0031322X.2010.527443
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