Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
East European Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,4 (1999) 411-425
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust denial
;
Post-communism
;
Collective memory
Abstract:
After the collapse of communist rule in Hungary in 1989, the Holocaust - now a legitimate topic in the country - became an embarrassing issue for the new regimes. While the present number of blatant Holocaust deniers are negligible, the number of "history cleansers" who try to distort the catastrophe of Hungarian Jewry is very large. Their methods include placing the responsibility on the Germans or on the Arrow Cross regime; blaming the Jews themselves; relativizing the Holocaust (e.g. equating it with Soviet atrocities); and deflecting public attention from the Hungarian perpetrators to the very minute number of rescuers. The leaders of Hungary have so far failed to acknowledge publicly their country's responsibility for the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Studies on the Holocaust" II (2001), and as "Assault on historical memory; Hungarian nationalists and the Holocaust" in "Hungary and the Holocaust" (2001) 45-75. An updated and expanded version appeared as "Hungary and the Holocaust; the nationalist drive to whitewash the past" in "The Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania during the Post-Communist Era" (2004) 1-41, and as "Hungary; the assault on the historical memory of the Holocaust" in "The Holocaust in Hungary; Seventy Years Later" (2016) 261-309.
,
Appeared in French as "Offensive contre l'histoire; les nationalistes hongrois et la Shoah" in "Les Temps Modernes" 606 (1999) 123-141.
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