Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? - The Dispute About the Germans'' Understanding of History

Informationen zum Autor By James Knowlton Klappentext The original documents comprising the German controversy over the singularity of the Holocaust are here translated into English for the first time. Was Hitler's program of genocide just another example of totalitarian terror, comparable to such other 20th-century atrocities as Stalin's purges of the 1930s or those of Cambodia's Pol Pot? Are some German historians seeking to stabilize the present and determine the future by sanitizing the Nazi past? These questions are at the heart of a heated debate that galvinized the West German public in the 1980s before the fall of the Berlin wall. This collection of primary documents relating to this crucial controversy, which remains under the surface of current German politics, includes contributions by Jürgen Habermas, Ernst Nolte, and many other eminent scholars. Zusammenfassung Features documents comprising the German controversy over the singularity of the Holocaust. This book offers a collection of documents relating to this controversy! which remains under the surface of German politics. It includes contributions by Jurgen Habermas! Ernst Nolte! and other scholars.

Product details

• Authors: James Knowlton, Knowlton James
• Assisted by: Prometheus Books (Editor), Truett Cates (Translation), James Knowlton (Translation)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1993
• EAN: 9781573925617
• ISBN: 978-1-57392-561-7
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: German Studies; German Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater