Language:
German
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 [157] (2010) 9-22
Keywords:
Voegelin, Eric,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Describes, briefly, the two most significant debates on the Holocaust in the past decades: the German "Historikerstreit" (1986-87) and the debate surrounding Daniel Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" (1996). Contends that the fanatical antisemitism of Hitler and his cohorts, and their intention to murder the Jews, can be explained in accordance with the theory of "political religion", explicated by Eric Voegelin and others. Hitler and other leading Nazis cherished an apocalyptic worldview, which must be seen as the most poignant manifestation of Nazism's political religion and as the only plausible explanation of the Holocaust.
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