Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust, Hans Kundnani (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 320 pp., cloth 27.50
This book traces two fundamentally different paths taken by activists from the German extra-parliamentary radical Left of the 1960s. At the root of these divergences lay radically opposed understandings of and responses to Auschwitz and antisemitism. The common point of departure was a belief that t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 322-324 |
| Review of: | Utopia or Auschwitz (London : C. Hurst, 2009) (Spencer, Philip)
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| Summary: | This book traces two fundamentally different paths taken by activists from the German extra-parliamentary radical Left of the 1960s. At the root of these divergences lay radically opposed understandings of and responses to Auschwitz and antisemitism. The common point of departure was a belief that the postwar Federal Republic had not fully broken with the Nazi past. This apparently highly principled stance set many in the 1968 generation against their elders, whom they criticized (often rightly) for their complicity in and unwillingness to face up to the great crimes that had been committed. But, despite repeated calls not to allow a repetition of Auschwitz, this position was not based itself on an unambiguous rejection of antisemitism. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr034 |