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The Holocaust - Critical Historical Approaches (Paperback, New)
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The Holocaust - Critical Historical Approaches (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding
of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated
early perspectives and silences. This book summarises and
criticises the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new
ways by which we can approach its study. It addresses the use of
victim testimony and asks important questions: What function does
recording the past serve for the victim? What do historians want
from it? Are these two perspectives incompatible? The perpetrators
of the Holocaust and the development of the murder process are
closely examined. The book also compares the mentalities of the
killers and the contexts of the killing with those in other acts of
genocide and ethnic cleansing in the first half of the twentieth
century, searching for an explanation within these comparisons. In
addition, it looks at the bystanders to the Holocaust - considering
the complexity and ambiguity at the heart of contemporary
responses, especially within the western liberal democracies.
Ultimately, this text highlights the essential need to place the
Holocaust in the broadest possible context, emphasising the
importance of producing high quality but sensitive scholarship in
its study. -- .
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