In Hitler's shadow
Subtitle: West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past
By: Richard J. Evans.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Historiography -- Germany (West); Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography
Description: This book is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience from guilt about its Nazi past. These new revisionists argue that Germans have no more to be ashamed of than other peoples: Auschwitz, they say, does not stand alone in history; it was merely one of a number of similar crimes, from Stalin's purges to the mass murders committed by Pol Pot. The German army was not trying to impose a genocidal dictatorship; it was fighting to prevent a Communist takeover of Europe. - Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [186]-189.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The burden of guilt; title: Asiatic deeds; title: Bulwark against Bolshevism?; title: Auschwitz and elsewhere; title: Reshaping Central Europe; title: Germany and the West; title: Further reading