Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (1998) 100-120
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Based on a lecture held in Potsdam, February 1997. Criticizes the concentration of historians of the Holocaust, especially in Germany, on events up to 1942. Refutes Goldhagen's thesis of "eliminationist antisemitism", and ascribes the readiness of ordinary Germans to commit mass murder to their identification with a utopian ideology. Traces the stages of the extermination of the Jews in various parts of Europe between 1943-45. Describes the inability, at first, and the unwillingness, nearly throughout the war, of the Allies to aid the Jews. Analyzes Jewish rescue attempts, and Himmler's moves to negotiate the release of Jews as a tactic to make contact with the Allies. Describes the death marches, noting that their victims were both Jews and non-Jews, and that in occupied countries, no less than in Germany, the population stood passively by.
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