Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (2002) 243-265
Keywords:
Frank, Anne,
;
Schnabel, Ernst,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses the role of the diary of Anne Frank in terms of remembrance, mourning, and especially guilt in West Germany starting in the late 1950s. Ernst Schnabel's "Anne Frank: Spur eines Kindes" (1958) combated the tendency to focus on the individual rather than deal with the larger moral questions, including about Germany's Nazi past. Praises Schnabel's emphasis on history, while faulting its insensitivity to Jewish post-Holocaust sensitivities. Recommends that historiography move beyond the concepts (set in the 1960s) of silence, repression, guilt, denial, and "coming to terms with the past." Despite misuses of Anne Frank's story, concludes that individual stories can prompt historical reflection and moral repugnance at what the Nazis did. Notes that the television film "Holocaust" also facilitated memory and mourning.
Note:
Analyzes Ernst Schnabel's "Anne Frank; Spur eines Kindes" (1958).
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/16.2.243
URL:
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