| Description |
1 online resource (x, 334 pages .) |
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George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history |
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George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history.
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| Contents |
Preface -- Editorial Note by Joel Golb -- Introduction to the American Edition -- 1. Tragedy, Fate, and Breach: Friedrich Meinecke's The German Catastrophe (1946) and the Paradoxes of "National-Historical" Interpretation -- 2. "A Large Dark Stain on the German Shield of Honor": Gerhard Ritter, Hans Rothfels and the Denationalization of National Socialism -- 3. Herman Heimpel, Reinhard Wittram, and Fritz Ernst: : A "Demonstration of Protestant Penitence" in 1950s Germany -- 4. "How Difficult It Is Not to Write Powerfully about Auschwitz!": The Early Years of Munich's Institute for Contemporary History -- 5. "Prehistorical Excavations" and "Absolute Objectivity": On the Travail of the Polish Jewish Historian of the Holocaust Joseph Wulf -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"This landmark book was first published in Germany, provoking both acclaim and controversy. In this "history of historiography," Nicolas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post-World War II Germany. He examines how they perceived--and failed to perceive--the Holocaust and how they interpreted and misinterpreted that historical fact using an arsenal of terms and concepts, arguments and explanations. This English-language translation is also a shortened and reorganized edition, which includes a new introduction by Berg reviewing and commenting on the response to the German editions. Notably, in this American edition, discussion of historial Joseph Wulf and his colleague and fellow Holocaust survivor Léon Poliakov has been united in one chapter. And special care has been taken to make the questions raised about German historiographical writing clear to English speakers. Translator Joel Golb comments, "From 1945 to the present, the way historians have approached the Holocaust has posed deep-reaching problems regarding choice of language ... This book is consequently as much about language as it is about facts""--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
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Historiography -- Germany (West)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Historians -- Germany (West)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Historians -- Germany (West)
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Historiography -- Germany (West)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Historians
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Historiography
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Judenvernichtung
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Rezeption
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Historiker
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054595
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Germany -- 1933-1945. -- History.
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Germany
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Germany (West)
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Deutschland Bundesrepublik
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014007449 |
| ISBN |
0299300838 |
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9780299300838 |
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