Language:
German
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
1999; Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (1987) 158-169
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust denial
;
Jews Persecutions 1939-1945
;
History
;
Germany History 1939-1945
;
Historiography
Abstract:
Criticizes the views of historians such as Ernst Nolte and Joachim Fest, whose theories concerning the mass murder of European Jews can be seen as Holocaust denial. Contends that "Auschwitz" was not an unusual occurrence in history; the singularity of the Holocaust lies in the methods employed. Denies the view that the murder of the Jews was planned in reaction to the German defeats in the USSR. Claims that, on the contrary, the mass execution of the Jews began in the euphoria of German victory, in the certitude of developing a new pure Aryan Europe. Irrational Jew-hatred and hostility towards "other" societies enabled such atrocities.
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