Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,4 (1999) 87-106
Keywords:
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
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Weiss, John,
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Friedländer, Saul,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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Antisemitism Historiography
Abstract:
The first comprehensive accounts of Nazism (e.g. by Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann, 1941-42) did not highlight antisemitism as a cornerstone of Nazi ideology and policy. The historians of the 1950s-60s (Poliakov, Reitlinger, Hilberg) historicized the Holocaust and depicted Nazi antisemitism as a continuation of pre-modern German antisemitism. Later, historians drew a line between pre-modern antisemitism and that of Hitler; however, functionalists downplayed antisemitism as a factor in the genesis of the Holocaust. In the mid-1990s, antisemitism has returned to Holocaust historiography as a major factor explaining the events. Three recent books, Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners, " Saul Friedlaender's "Nazi Germany and the Jews, " and John Weiss's "Ideology of Death" may be regarded as a reaction to the bureaucratic conception of the Holocaust. Goldhagen rejects completely the conclusions of the previous historiographic school, while the two others combine their ideological approach with some of the findings of the functionalists.
DOI:
10.1080/003132299128810713
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