Foundational pasts
Subtitle: the Holocaust as historical understanding
By: Alon Confino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521516655; 9780521736329
Subjects: Historiography; Politics and government; Moral and ethical aspects; Ethnic relations; National socialism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Antisemitism; Causes; History
Description: "This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new approach that places at the center not simply what happened during the Nazi years--the anti-Semetic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the way--but especially what the Nazi and other Germans thought was happening; a necessary, deathly war against the key enemy, the Jews"--
Notes: "Volume 1"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Thinking the Holocaust; title: Pt. II. Thresholds and Limits of History.