The Holocaust and the West German Historians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Holocaust and the West German Historians write by Nicolas Berg. This book was released on 2015-01-13. The Holocaust and the West German Historians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark book, Nicholas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post-World War II Germany. He examines how they perceived--and failed to perceive--the Holocaust and how they interpreted and misinterpreted that historical fact using an arsenal of terms and concepts, arguments, and explanations.
In Hitler's Shadow
In Hitler's Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Hitler's Shadow write by Richard J. Evans. This book was released on 1989. In Hitler's Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience from guilt about its Nazi past. These new revisionists argue that Germans have no more to be ashamed of than other peoples: Auschwitz, they say, does not stand alone in history; it was merely one of a number of similar crimes, from Stalin's purges to the mass murders committed by Pol Pot. The German army was not trying to impose a genocidal dictatorship; it was fighting to prevent a Communist takeover of Europe. - Back cover.
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past write by S. Jonathan Wiesen. This book was released on 2004-02-01. West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He challenges assumptions that West Germans - and industrialists in particular - were silent about the recent past during the years of denazification and reconstruction, revealing how German business leaders attempted to absolve themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes while recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. Through case studies of individual firms such as Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts corporate publicity as a telling example of postwar selective memory.
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Hitler's Willing Executioners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler's Willing Executioners write by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Hitler's Willing Executioners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer
The Unmasterable Past
The Unmasterable Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unmasterable Past write by Charles S. Maier. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Unmasterable Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.
