Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust; studii şi cercetări
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2011) 127-141
Keywords:
International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Referring to a work by Constantin Iordachi, shows that the terms "intentionalism" and "functionalism" can be transposed to research on the Romanian Holocaust of 1941-44. In the intentionalist account, the blame is placed squarely on Ion Antonescu, who allegedly was driven by an obsessive racial antisemitism and pursued a policy of premeditated ethnic cleansing. The functionalist narrative also places the primary, but not the only, responsibility for the Holocaust on the dictator, but maintains that the "cleansing" of Romania of Jews was only one of Antonescu's goals, and not the one for which he would have been willing to sacrifice everything. In addition, other factors (local and Legionnaires' initiatives, German pressure, Allies' threats, etc.) were at work. Focuses on three topics in the history of the Holocaust in Romania: the Jassy pogrom, the character of Ion Antonescu's antisemitism, and his decision to stop the deportations from the Regat in the fall of 1942. Provides analyses of these topics by four historians, two of them intentionalist - Lya Benjamin and Jean Ancel, and two functionalist - Dennis Deletant and Radu Ioanid. Argues that the "Final Report" of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania is written in the intentionalist paradigm.
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