Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (1987) 310-324
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Martin Broszat's call for "historization" of the study of the Nazi era is open to scholarly debate. Broszat demands that the Nazi period be considered in similar terms to any other, and not in a special political-ideological-moral framework. It is thus relativized and placed in the context of historical evolution and 20th century modernizing trends. Argues that Broszat's demand for empathy in dealing with the Nazi period is complicated by the fact that almost all institutions and domains supported the structure of the regime, even those who remained passive. Concludes that Nazism was unique in that it presumed to determine theoretically who could and who could not exist on this planet, and then proceeded to annihilate the "undesirable" populations. Supports historization in that it opens up new aspects of the Nazi phenomenon, but warns against relativization and banalization of the Nazi past.
Note:
Appeared in German as "Überlegungen zur Historisierung des Nationalsozialismus" in "Ist der Nationalsozialismus Geschichte?" (1987) 34-50 and in his "Nachdenken über den Holocaust" (2007) 56-77; reprinted in English in "Reworking the Past; Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Historians' Debate" (1990). In Hebrew:
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"ילקוט מורשת" מג-מד (תשמז) 129-142
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