Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino, University of Virginia

"This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new...

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Auteurs principaux:Confino, Alon (Auteur)
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Langue:English
Publié:Cambridge ; New York ; Melborune ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; MExico City : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Résumé:"This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new approach that places at the center not simply what happened during the Nazi years--the anti-Semetic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the way--but especially what the Nazi and other Germans thought was happening; a necessary, deathly war against the key enemy, the Jews"--
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Description matérielle:xi, 180 Seiten Illustration 24 cm
ISBN:9780521736329
9780521516655
052151665X
0521736323