Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933−1949David Cesarani
Cesarani's title is significant: the “Holocaust” is a term he would like to retire, “well past its sell-by date.” His dissatisfaction springs from what he sees as a disjuncture between the shallowness of the Final Solution's portrayal in popular culture, education, and commemoration, and t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 116-118 |
| Review of: | Final solution (New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016) (Schleunes, Karl A.)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Cesarani's title is significant: the “Holocaust” is a term he would like to retire, “well past its sell-by date.” His dissatisfaction springs from what he sees as a disjuncture between the shallowness of the Final Solution's portrayal in popular culture, education, and commemoration, and the richness of the findings scholars have unearthed in the archives of Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Likewise, he believes the term obscures a contradiction between the depth of the anti-Jewish hatred shared by Hitler and his core of true believers, and their failure to produce a Jewish policy that was in any way “systematic, consistent or even premeditated. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx010 |