Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2 (1987) 97-110
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
National socialism Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Traces the first stages of the "historians' debate" in West Germany about the Nazi era and the Holocaust, criticizing particularly the works of Nolte, Hillgruber, and Broszat. Discusses the recent shifts in German historiography which can be summed up by the term "historization" - reinserting the Nazi phenomenon into normal historical narrative, i.e. minimizing or abolishing its singularity. Notes that while a yearning for normalization of the past is becoming stronger in Germany, an opposite trend is occurring in the Jewish world, as witnessed by the growing centrality of the Shoah amongst Diaspora Jewry. Remarks that the debate is at present a German one, and views the decrease of historical insight in the work of highly respected German intellectuals with disappointment.
Note:
Translated from the Hebrew ("Ha'Aretz", 3 October 1986).
DOI:
10.1163/157007387X00273
URL:
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