GERMAN LEFTISTS COME TO GRIPS WITH THE PAST

The articles analysed in this paper reflect a turning point in the evolution of German radicalism. For the first time, leftists doubt publicly the very foundations of their ideology — the concepts of fascism and racism — as a possible key for understanding Nazism. They discover their own ‘negation o...

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Authors: Coulmas, Corinna 1948- (Author) ; Friedländer, Saul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 1991
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1991, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-44
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Summary:The articles analysed in this paper reflect a turning point in the evolution of German radicalism. For the first time, leftists doubt publicly the very foundations of their ideology — the concepts of fascism and racism — as a possible key for understanding Nazism. They discover their own ‘negation of history’, after having criticized that of their fathers, and react with a massive ‘anti-Jewish impulse’, revealing thus some of the mechanisms of left-wing antisemrtism.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/6.1.33