Language:
French
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Annales - Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations
Angaben zur Quelle:
48,3 (1993) 773-798
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Jews Persecutions 1933-1945
;
History
Abstract:
Juxtaposes two types of historical writings on the Holocaust: early works, in which the writers tried to find a single key to the mystery of the massacre of European Jewry, and later works whose writers were inclined to a more pluralistic explanation. The earlier approaches derive, as a rule, from one of three common theories of the time: that antisemitism was the main cause of the Holocaust; that the mass murder was a product of totalitarianism; and that the Holocaust was either an antimodernist reaction or, on the contrary, the manifestation of an extreme modernist tendency in Germany. The greatest merit of the earlier approach is that it drew the attention of non-Jewish historians to the Holocaust, which had been mainly neglected by them. The prevalent approach of the last two decades contests the earlier views; it has succeeded in integrating the Holocaust into the framework of wider Nazi policies, and has made the Holocaust an integral part of the history of our era.
Note:
Appeared in English as "Reflections on the historiography of the Holocaust" in the "Journal of Modern History" 66,1 (1994) 92-116.
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