Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2003) 311-346
Keywords:
Wulf, Josef
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Wulf, a Holocaust survivor who lost his entire family, was aware that critics would delegitimize anything that he himself wrote on the Holocaust. Instead, he published collections of documents - the first three together with Léon Poliakov, the following ones on his own. His opinions found expression in the arrangement of the material, in the footnotes, and in his policy to name names of even middle-level perpetrators and list them in the index. This last brought down on him the wrath of those involved, many of whom occupied important positions in the new West German bureaucracy. While his books sold well, professional historians belittled him. He was ahead of his time both in his approach, which went against the current of German historiography of the 1960s-70s, and in the topics on which he touched (e.g. the role of the Wehrmacht). Today, unfortunately, he is almost forgotten.
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