The Holocaust and The West German Historians : Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory Paperback / softback
by Nicholas Berg
Part of the George L. Mosse Series In Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History series
Paperback / softback
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This landmark book was first published in Germany, provoking both acclaim and controversy.
In this ""history of historiography,"" Nicolas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post–World War II Germany.
He examines how they perceived - and failed to perceive - the Holocaust and how they interpreted and misinterpreted that historical fact using an arsenal of terms and concepts, arguments and explanations. This English-language translation is also a shortened and reorganized edition, which includes a new introduction by Berg reviewing and commenting on the response to the German editions.
Notably, in this American edition, discussion of historian Joseph Wulf and his colleague and fellow Holocaust survivor Léon Poliakov has been united in one chapter. And special care has been taken to make clear to English speakers the questions raised about German historiographical writing.
Translator Joel Golb comments, ""From 1945 to the present, the way historians have approached the Holocaust has posed deep-reaching problems regarding choice of language...This book is consequently as much about language as it is about facts.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 4 black and white photographs
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2014
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- ISBN:9780299300845
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 4 black and white photographs
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299300845
