ISBN:
9781350281905
,
9781350281899
,
9781350281912
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (127 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2022
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) History
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects
;
Electronic books
;
European history
;
The Holocaust
Abstract:
"In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry into the European Union, the countries of Eastern Europe would have to acknowledge their compatriots' complicity in genocide. Fifteen year later, the landscape looks starkly different. Shedding fresh light on these developments, The Perversion of Holocaust Memory explores the politicization and distortion of Holocaust remembrance since 1989. This innovative book opens with an analysis of events across Europe which buttressed confidence in the stability of Holocaust memory and brought home the full extent of nations' participation in the Final Solution. And yet, as Judith M. Hughes reveals in later chapters, mainstream accountability began to crumble as the 21st century progressed: German and Jewish suffering was equated; anti-Semitic rhetoric re-entered contemporary discourse; populist leaders side-stepped inconvenient facts; and, more recently with the revival of ethno-nationalism, Holocaust remembrance has been caught in the backlash of the European refugee crisis. The four countries analyzed here -- France, Germany, Hungary, and Poland -- could all claim to be victims of Nazi Germany, the Allies or the Communist Soviet Union but they were also all perpetrators. Ultimately, it is this complex legacy which Hughes adroitly untangles in her sophisticated study of Holocaust memory in modern Europe."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. The Papon Affair -- 2. Germans in the Dock -- 3. Victims, Jewish and German -- 4. From Holodomor to Holocaust -- 5. Revising History, Reviving Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350281905
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350281905
URL:
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-perversion-of-holocaust-memory-writing-and-rewriting-the-past-after-1989/
