The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the "memory wars" in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how "mnemonic warriors" employ the "Holocaust template" and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the "universalization of the Holocaust" as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the "double genocide" paradigm, on the other, which focuses on "our own" national suffering under - allegedly "equally" evil - Nazism and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying one's own group as "the new Jews" and one's opponents in the wars of the 1990s as (akin to) "Nazis". Surveying major battle sites in this "memory war": memorial museums, monuments, film and the war over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the "memory wars" in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how "mnemonic warriors" employ the "Holocaust template" and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the "universalization of the Holocaust" as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the "double genocide" paradigm, on the other, which focuses on "our own" national suffering under - allegedly "equally" evil - Nazism and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying one's own group as "the new Jews" and one's opponents in the wars of the 1990s as (akin to) "Nazis". Surveying major battle sites in this "memory war": memorial museums, monuments, film and the war over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Das Buch ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der KZ-Gedenkstattenlandschaft in OEsterreich und Polen. Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, welchen Stellenwert Auschwitz als Pars pro Toto fur die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager im Diskurs uber den Zweiten Weltkrieg einnimmt. Dieser Frage wird vor dem Hintergrund der Erinnerungsarbeit und Museumspadagogik von Gedenkstatten und Museen, der Darstellung von Konzentrationslagern in Lehrbuchern fur den schulischen Geschichtsunterricht in OEsterreich, Deutschland und Polen sowie Zeitzeugenprojekten auf den Grund gegangen.

Sind Frauen ebenso antisemitisch wie Manner oder doch das friedfertige Geschlecht, wie Margarete Mitscherlich beteuert? Um das klaren zu koennen, wird Freuds Weiblichkeitstheorie der heutigen Zeit angepasst, die Entstehung von Geschlechterrollen eroertert. Um den Antisemitismus von Frauen zu untersuchen, folgt eine Analyse des Phanomens Antisemitismus, gemass den Erkenntnissen der Kritischen Theorie. Ein UEberblick uber Taterinnen im Nationalsozialismus und den Umgang der Frauenbewegung mit dem Thema Antisemitismus ermoeglicht eine Theorie des weiblichen autoritaren Charakters: Trotz ihrer oft beteuerten Friedfertigkeit funktioniert der Antisemitismus bei Frauen ebenso wie bei Mannern. Bloss die Inhalte, welche auf Judinnen und Juden projiziert werden, unterscheiden sich entsprechend den unterschiedlichen Geschlechterrollen.