Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War to the present day, and argues forcefully that history writing is as much about the present as it is the past. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. ‘The Theory and Practice of Hell’: Post-War Interpretations of the Genocide of the Jews
2. ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’: War Crimes Prosecutions and the Emergence of Holocaust Metanarratives
3. ‘The Deputy’: Bystanders to the Holocaust
4. ‘The Realisation of the Unthinkable’: Searching for the Origins of the Final Solution
5. ‘National Socialist Extermination Policies’: The End of the Cold War and the Breakdown of Holocaust Metanarratives
6. Ordinary Men: Re-thinking the Politics of Perpetrators History
7. ‘Like Sheep to the Slaughter’: Debates on Jewish Responses to Nazism
8. ‘Holocaust Testimonies’: The Ruins of Memory and Holocaust Historiography
Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
