Language:
French
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Vichy, les Français et la Shoah; un état de la connaissance scientifique
Angaben zur Quelle:
212 (2020) 295-318
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Who owns history? “Everyone and no one,” was the US historian Eric Foner’s assessment in 2003. Noting a deep fissure between academic and public discourse on slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era, Foner urged historians to reinvigorate their engagement with public history. Almost two decades later, in the wake of an anti-globalization backlash and resurgent anti-Semitism, Foner’s worries apply even more so to the Holocaust. Perhaps the most contentious field of history, it truly haunts us. Innovative research on this seminal twentieth-century event thrives as never before. As reflected in the pages of the Revue, the opening of Soviet archives and a globalized commemorative culture centered on the Holocaust have contributed to shifting scholarly attention from Germany to eastern Europe. A state-directed mass crime carried out by the Third Reich, the genocide of the Jews, and the targeting of Soviet POWs, Slavs, LGBTQ, Roma and Sinti, and the disabled could not have occurred without the participation, tacit support, and inertia of millions of non-Germans. Paradoxically, scholars who point to the complexity of these social relations have never been so harshly criticized throughout eastern Europe as they are now. Poland, Ukraine, and other countries have increasingly developed official memory politics that often consider local populations as victims caught between Hitler and Stalin. In the face of scholarly discourse stifled by aggressive public voices, we historians must bridge this gap…
Note:
With an English abstract.
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