The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), cloth 29.95
Holocaust historians and teachers have often posed the question, “How much did the average German know about the genocide of the Jews?” This query reflects not only scholarly curiosity, but also the fact that after World War II most Germans claimed not to have known about the Nazis' genocidal a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-305 |
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| Summary: | Holocaust historians and teachers have often posed the question, “How much did the average German know about the genocide of the Jews?” This query reflects not only scholarly curiosity, but also the fact that after World War II most Germans claimed not to have known about the Nazis' genocidal aims. The latter point is bolstered by popular renditions of the period even today. For example in the 2004 film Der Untergang (Downfall), a gripping view of Hitler's last days in the bunker, the Führer's secretary looks surprised when Hitler, while dictating his last will and testament, lashes out against the Jews—as though she had never heard racial hatred from the Führer's lips., In his fine new book, Jeffrey Herf does not claim to show what average Germans knew or did not know. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm024 |