How the Holocaust Looks Now
Subtitle: International Perspectives
Contributors: Claus-Christian W. Szejnman (Editor); Martin L. Davies (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: January 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780230001473
Subjects: The Holocaust; World history: Second World War; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Jewish Holocaust; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Holocaust; History / Holocaust; Holocaust memorials; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Memory; Social aspects
Description: The essays in this book reflect on the significance of the Holocaust sixty years afterwards. In this time it has become embedded in collective memory This book explores the idea that even thought the tenets of Nazism--racism, dictatorship, expansionism --have become unacceptable in the western world, little has actually changed. Since 1945 crimes against humanity and human rights have occurred throughout the world. The Holocaust thus pre-figures a "death-drive" in contemporary culture: the idea that the ability to deliver death is the supreme expression of self-affirmation.