Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Annales - Histoire, Sciences Sociales
Angaben zur Quelle:
58,2 (2003) 417-438
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Presents an overview of recent German Holocaust historiography. Having left behind the debate between intentionalists and functionalists, and affected by Goldhagen and by material from recently opened Eastern European archives, historians now focus on the perpetrators, global aspects of Nazi repression, and local circumstances influencing the extermination of Jews in Eastern Europe. Discusses works by Ulrich Herbert and Michael Wildt on the attitudes of Nazi dignitaries, Michael Zimmermann's studies on the persecution of Gypsies as compared to that of the Jews, and Götz Aly's analysis of the heterogeneity of Nazi repressive practices as part of their ethnic and spatial reorganization of Europe. Over 20 recent academic studies deal with local variations of the extermination process. Most authors agree on the periodization of genocidal actions, and their valuable regional research helps to determine the details of the unfolding of events, their causes, and the role of various Eastern European nationalities in the persecutions. Notes that recent research views the Holocaust as an all-European matter.
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