‘After the Holocaust: National Attitudes to Jews’THE POLITICS OF MEMORY: HOLOCAUST AND LEGITIMACY IN POST-NAZI GERMANY
When the full truth of the destruction of European Jews became known to Germans after the war the enormity of the crime was received with silence. This silence was present in almost all cultural discourses and practices for more than twenty years. Only with the emergence of the student and social mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-26 |
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| Summary: | When the full truth of the destruction of European Jews became known to Germans after the war the enormity of the crime was received with silence. This silence was present in almost all cultural discourses and practices for more than twenty years. Only with the emergence of the student and social movements of the late sixties the cultural taboo slowly lifted. The crime was recognized. Yet the centrality of the Holocaust in the understanding of German history, is still not seen. The current historical debates are indicative of this cultural syndrome. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.1.15 |