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Informationen zum Autor Tom Lawson is Reader in Modern History at the University of Winchester Klappentext 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 and 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. 'The Theory and Practice of Hell': Post-War Interpretations of the Genocide of the Jews2. 'Eichmann in Jerusalem': War Crimes Prosecutions and the Emergence of Holocaust Metanarratives3. 'The Deputy': Bystanders to the Holocaust4. 'The Realisation of the Unthinkable': Searching for the Origins of the Final Solution5. 'National Socialist Extermination Policies': The End of the Cold War and the Breakdown of Holocaust Metanarratives6. Ordinary Men: Re-thinking the Politics of Perpetrators History7. 'Like Sheep to the Slaughter': Debates on Jewish Responses to Nazism8. 'Holocaust Testimonies': The Ruins of Memory and Holocaust HistoriographyConclusionGuide to Further Reading
