| Description |
vi, 308 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. Introduction -- The Historikerstreit in context / Peter Baldwin -- Immoral equivalence : revising the past for the Kohl era / Charles S. Maier -- The Jewish question in the German question / Anson Rabinbach -- Part 2. Historicization : placing National Socialism in history -- A plea for the historicization of National Socialism / Martin Broszat -- Some reflections on the historicization of National Socialism / Saul Friedlñder -- A controversy about the historicization of National Socialism / Martin Broszat and Saul Friedländer -- Between aporia and apology : on the limits of historicizing National Socialism / Dan Diner -- Singularity and its relativization : changing views in German historiography on National Socialism and the "final solution" / Otto Dov Kulka -- Part 3. Appraisal -- Reappraisal and repression : the Third Reich in West German historical consciousness / Hans Mommsen -- Explaining the German catastrophe : the use and abuse of historical explanations / Hagen Schulze -- Warding off the past : a problem only for historians and moralists? / Wolfgang Benz -- Unburdening the German past? A preliminary assessment / Hans-Ulrich Wehler -- The Historikerstreit and social history / Mary Nolan -- Part 4. Ramifications : German, Jews, and the Left -- Negative symbiosis : Germans and Jews after Auschwitz / Dan Diner -- Coping with the past : the West German labor movement and the Left / Andrei S. Markovits -- Part 5. Closure? -- German identity and historical comparison : after the Historikerstreit / Jürgen Kocka -- Bibliography of works on the historians' debate and related topics |
| Summary |
A collection of significant contributions to the debate on the understanding and interpretation of Nazism and the meaning of German history and German identity |
| Notes |
The Mazal Holocaust Collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-304) |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Historiography -- Germany.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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National socialism -- Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054595
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| Author |
Baldwin, Peter, 1956-
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| LC no. |
89046055 |
| ISBN |
0807043028 |
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