Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Critical Inquiry
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,2 (1998) 393-444
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
It is commonly thought that, before the airing of the TV film "Holocaust" in 1979, West Germans had engaged in repression or amnesia about the Judeocide of the Nazi era. Contends that, on the contrary, it has been on their minds constantly. The obsession of Germans with the Holocaust is reflected in their innumerable references to Auschwitz, Nazism, concentration camps, "final solution, " etc., in connection with the discussion of all sorts of subjects not directly connected with the Holocaust. Noticeably absent in these discussions is a close attention to the Jewish victims. A survey of German writing about sexual liberation, feminism, and the New Left male reaction to feminism in the 1960s-80s reveals copious references to the Nazi period and the German Judeocide. Innumerable references are also found in German discussions on other subjects, including global economic injustice and the threat of nuclear war.
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