Debates on the Holocaust
By: Tom Lawson
Series: Issues in historiography
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780719074493; 9780719074486
Subjects: Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Geschichtsschreibung; Judenvernichtung; Holocaust
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'The Theory and Practice of Hell': post-war interpretations of the genocide of the Jews; title: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem': war crimes prosecutions and the emergence of Holocaust metanarratives; title: 'The Deputy': bystanders to the Holocaust; title: 'The Realisation of the Unthinkable': searching for the origins of the 'Final Solution'; title: 'National Socialist Extermination Policies': the end of the Cold War and the breakdown of Holocaust metanarratives; title: 'Ordinary Men': rethinking the politics of perpetrator history; title: 'Like Sheep to Slaughter': debates on Jewish responses to Nazism; title: 'Holocaust Testimonies': the ruins of memory and Holocaust historiography