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The Perversion of Holocaust Memory - Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 (Paperback)
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The Perversion of Holocaust Memory - Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 (Paperback)
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In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory
of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to
gain entry into the European Union, the countries of Eastern Europe
would have to acknowledge their compatriots' complicity in
genocide. Fifteen year later, the landscape looks starkly
different. Shedding fresh light on these developments, The
Perversion of Holocaust Memory explores the politicization and
distortion of Holocaust remembrance since 1989. This innovative
book opens with an analysis of events across Europe which
buttressed confidence in the stability of Holocaust memory and
brought home the full extent of nations' participation in the Final
Solution. And yet, as Judith M. Hughes reveals in later chapters,
mainstream accountability began to crumble as the 21st century
progressed: German and Jewish suffering was equated; anti-Semitic
rhetoric re-entered contemporary discourse; populist leaders
side-stepped inconvenient facts; and, more recently with the
revival of ethno-nationalism, Holocaust remembrance has been caught
in the backlash of the European refugee crisis. The four countries
analyzed here - France, Germany, Hungary, and Poland - could all
claim to be victims of Nazi Germany, the Allies or the Communist
Soviet Union but they were also all perpetrators. Ultimately, it is
this complex legacy which Hughes adroitly untangles in her
sophisticated study of Holocaust memory in modern Europe.
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