Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
American Historical Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
103,3 (1998) 771-816
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Genocide History 20th century
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
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Antisemitism History 1933-1945
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Jews History 1933-1945
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Jews Persecutions 1933-1939
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History
Abstract:
Bartov's paper is presented as a "Forum Essay: Genocide in the Twentieth Century." Contends that the modern state's control over the minds of its citizens has allowed it to define its enemies and to create victims. During World War I, societies on both sides developed concepts of demonic foreign enemies. In Germany, during the Weimar and Nazi periods, the Jews were defined as the enemy. This facilitated their victimization in the Holocaust. Claims that it is impossible to establish how many Germans actually believed that Jews were the cause of Germany's problems, or how many were aware of the Holocaust during World War II. Discusses changes in perception of the Holocaust in the U.S. and in Israel following the Eichmann trial, and the impact of a nation's perception of itself as a victim and its search for its enemy in both postwar Germany and Israel, as well as in states recently involved in genocide. The events of the Holocaust and the identities of its perpetrators and victims remain highly elusive. Historians are charged with the task of reconstructing the events and surmounting the barriers that have stood in the way of coming to terms with them. See the responses in "The American Historical Review" 103,4 (1998).
Description / Table of Contents:
Miller, Paul B.. Imagined enemies, real victims; Bartov's transcendent Holocaust. Ibid. 103,4 (1998) 1178-1181.
Description / Table of Contents:
Moyn, Samuel. Two regimes of memory. 1182-1186.
Description / Table of Contents:
Lal, Vinay. Genocide, barbaric others, and the violence of categories; a response to Omer Bartov. 1187-1190.
Description / Table of Contents:
Bartov, Omer. Reply. 1191-1194.
Note:
Appeared also in "Landscaping the Human Garden" (2003) 135-166.
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