Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Belfagor; rassegna di varia umanità
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,1 (1989) 98-102
Keywords:
Levi, Primo,
;
Holocaust denial
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Traces two forms of revisionism in Holocaust historiography - denial that the genocide took place and German historians' trend towards historicization and relativization of the Holocaust (the "historians' debate") - and examines Primo Levi's views on both phenomena. Levi's last articles and essays referred explicitly to revisionist distortions. He emphasized the uniqueness of the Nazi concentration camp and Nazi extermination policy, as expressions of the Nazi plan to annihilate entire peoples and cultures. Levi saw the German people as guilty for their silence and passivity in the face of Nazi crimes.
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