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...
Authors: | ; |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Oxford University Press
1991
|
In: |
Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1991, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-44 |
Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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 |