Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Ethos
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,4 (2000) 551-574
Keywords:
Broszat, Martin
;
Friedländer, Saul,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
An anthropological interpretation of the exchanges of letters in 1987 between Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender on the issue of historicization of Nazism. Examines this exchange as a dialogue, in which Broszat represents the Germans who lived through the Nazi period, while Friedlaender represents the Holocaust victims. Investigates various "Thirds" that intervene in the dialogue as guarantors of meaning: other scholars (especially participants in the "Historikerstreit" of 1986-87) cited by Broszat and Friedlaender, the historiographical tradition the two scholars place themselves in, the counter groups of Germans and Jews, and the age group they belong to. Employs the psychoanalytically-inspired notions of "acting-out" and "working-through" to analyze how they engage the past. As historians of the Nazi period, both Broszat and Friedlaender necessarily deal with their own "context of survivorship, " hence the differences in their acting-out and working-through of their original shock.
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