Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
German Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (1990) 269-283
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
A revised version of a paper presented at a symposium on "Nazi Terror and Resistance", Princeton, May 1989. Surveys aspects of historical investigation of the Holocaust that have been neglected, particularly the fate of the Romani and Sinti. Mentions the exclusivity of emphasis on antisemitism as a motive for the Nazi mass murder, which ignores the fact that racial and eugenic measures in Nazi Germany applied equally to Gypsies, Blacks, and the handicapped as well as to the Jews. Calls for a reconsideration of the role of the wartime concentration camps by increased investigation into the pre-war camps and the deportation of Gypsies and Jews between 1936-39. Antisemitism was not the only causative factor that led to the Final Solution.
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