Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,3 (1992) 359-382
Keywords:
Heim, Susanne,
;
Aly, Götz,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
;
National socialism Historiography
Abstract:
Criticizes Götz Aly and Susanne Heim's thesis that Nazi experts planned the Final Solution as a means of demographic and economic rationalization, arguing that it is a mono-causal explanation which leaves out of account the primacy of racist and political motives as well as the actual happenings. Asserts also that by delineating the continuity of the careers of the experts, and the historical context of their ideas of modernization and population control, they divert attention from the Holocaust as a distinct event.
Note:
Appeared in English as "Rationalization and method; critique of a new approach in understanding the 'Final Solution'" in "Yad Vashem Studies" 24 (1994) 71-108, and as "On rationality and rationalization; an economistic explanation of the Final Solution" in his "Beyond the Conceivable" (2000) 138-159. In Hebrew: "Yad Vashem" 24 (1995).
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