Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Aspects of the Third Reich
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1985) 17-38
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism Historiography
Abstract:
States that historical revisionism is necessary to reduce stereotyped historical myths, such as the wholly negative nature of the Third Reich, to their true dimensions. Describes several revisionist interpretations, rejecting David Irving’s claim that Hitler did not know about the Final Solution. Traces the historical origins of Nazi Germany, placing the extermination of the Jews in the context of the trend, fostered by the Industrial Revolution, toward eliminating small, parasitic groups as a precondition for modernization. Claims that the Nazis’ anti-Jewish policy identifying Jews with liberalism and Bolshevism was also a reaction to the anxiety aroused by the mass killings of the Russian Revolution - an irrational copy of the "red terror".
Abstract:
States that historical revisionism is necessary to reduce stereotyped historical myths, such as the wholly negative nature of the Third Reich, to their true dimensions. Describes several revisionist interpretations, rejecting David Irving's claim that Hitler did not know about the Final Solution. Traces the historical origins of Nazi Germany, placing the extermination of the Jews in the context of the trend, fostered by the Industrial Revolution, toward eliminating small, parasitic groups as a precondition for modernization. Claims that the Nazis' anti-Jewish policy identifying Jews with liberalism and Bolshevism was also a reaction to the anxiety aroused by the mass killings of the Russian Revolution - an irrational copy of the "red terror".
Note:
Appeared also in "Yad Vashem Studies" 19 (1988); in Hebrew:
,
יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים יט (תשמט) 35-45
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An abridged German version appeared in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (24 July 1980).
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