Foundational pasts [electronic resource] : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino.

9780521516655
9780521736329
9781139157193 (electronic book)

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

English

xi, 180 p. : ill.

D804.3 .C668 2011

940.53/18

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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