American and German Perspectives on the Goldhagen Debate: History, Identity, and the Media
Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners has stirred controversy both in the United States and Germany for more than a year. Writing from the perspective of an American historian living and working in Germany and Austria, Mitchell Ash compares the reception of the book in both coun...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1997
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 396-411 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners has stirred controversy both in the United States and Germany for more than a year. Writing from the perspective of an American historian living and working in Germany and Austria, Mitchell Ash compares the reception of the book in both countries. In particular, he examines Goldhagen's theses and the debate that ensued for their impact on Holocaust historiography and their political overtones, and for the role played by the media, including the Internet, in promoting and shaping discussion of the book. Ash shows that while there were important similarities between public and scholarly responses to the book in the US and Germany, there also were important differences. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/11.3.396 |