Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Holocaust Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,3 (1999) 41-70
Keywords:
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
;
Browning, Christopher R.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Stresses the importance of first-hand testimony - e.g. diaries, letters, memoirs - for the comprehension of Nazism and the Holocaust. Despite the misuse of such material (including accounts of the daily life of ordinary people) by German historians to privilege German suffering on the eastern front over Jewish suffering, concludes that emotional identification with Jewish victims and even with Nazi perpetrators, as in works by Christopher Browning, can lead to greater understanding of killers, as well as their victims. Discusses Daniel Goldhagen's criticism of Browning's use of testimony by Hitler's "willing executioners" and the former's use of Jewish testimony to counter self-serving German testimony. Deals, also (on pp. 44-50), with changing views toward Holocaust survivors in Israel from the early postwar period, reflected in attitudes toward Yizkor books, heroic and unheroic memoirs, etc.
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