Germany's War and the Holocaust - Disputed Histories

Klappentext Drawing on his background as a military historian to probe the nature of German warfare! Bartov considers the post-war myth of army resistance to Hitler and investigates the image of Blitzkrieg as a means to glorify war! debilitate the enemy and hide the realities of mass destruction. The author also addresses several analyses of the roots and nature of Nazi extermination policies! including revisionist views of the concentration camps. Finally! Bartov examines some paradigmatic interpretations of the Nazi period and its aftermath: the changing American! European and Israeli discourses on the Holocaust; Victor Klemperer's view of Nazi Germany from within; and Germany's perception of its own victimhood. Zusammenfassung Bartov provides a critical analysis of various recent ways to understand the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime and the reconstruction of German and Jewish identities in the wake of World War II.

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• Authors: Omer Bartov
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2003
• EAN: 9780801486814
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8681-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories