Debates on the Holocaust

Debates on the Holocaust is the first attempt to survey the development of Holocaust historiography for a generation. It analyses 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. The book guides the reader through the major debates in Holocaust historiography - including the question of when the Nazis 'decided' on the 'Final Solution', the controversy of the response of the so-called 'bystanders' to the Holocaust, to the vexed question of how historians can use (and not abuse) the memories of victims and survivors. Debates on the Holocaust shows how all of these controversies are as much products of their own time as they are attempts to uncover the past. Debates on the Holocaust will appeal to sixth form and undergraduate students and their teachers, Holocaust historians and anyone interested in either the destruction of the European Jews or in the process by which we access and understand the past.

ISBN 0719074495   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780719074493 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 417 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Series title Issues in Historiography Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 22 Oct 2010   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 940.5318   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Further/Higher education

Introduction 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

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