Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Contemporary History
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,2 (1999) 295-312
Keywords:
Mosse, George L.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Presents an appreciation of the historian, who stated that all his books in some way dealt with the Holocaust. Mosse's studies on intellectual and cultural history explored racism, stereotypes, and the roots of Nazism in German "völkisch" ideology and in fascism. He emphasized the difference between modern antisemitism, based on bourgeois morality and respectability, and traditional Christian anti-Judaism. Racism was one of the main sources of the exclusionism which, in his view, led to mass murder. Both as a Jew and as a homosexual, he identified with the outsider.
Note:
An earlier version appeared in the "Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual" 5 (1988).
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Appeared also in his "In Times of Crisis" (2001).
URL:
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