Format:
ix, 147 Seiten
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9781350281912
Content:
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, this volume 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.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 128-141
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 2022 ISBN 978-1-350-28187-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePDF ISBN 978-1-3502-8188-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-3502-8189-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Judenvernichtung
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Geschichte 1989-
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Historische Darstellung
