The Third Reich and Holocaust in German Historiography - Hardcover

Low, Alfred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880332867 ISBN 13: 9780880332866

Publisher: East European Monographs, 1995

Synopsis

The past German-Jewish relationship continues to burden the conscience and mind of many Germans as well as to preoccupy the descendants of German Jewry because of its universal significance to the world at large. At issue is the 'historization' of the Third Reich, its place in German history, whether it was a logical outgrowth of major German trends or an aberration. The recent flare-up of the dispute is not surprising. With greater distance from the Third Reich and Nazi atrocities and the German come-back, the rise of German democracy and economy and the increasing role of both democratic as well as neo-conservative and nationalist groups, including neo-Nazis and radical fringe elements, the stage was set for a clash between them.
In some respects the present study is a continuation of an earlier well-received work of the author, Jews in the Eyes of the Germans. From Enlightenment to Imperial Germany, 1979, which traced the German-Jewish relationship from the dawn of Jewish emancipation and Enlightenment to the rise of German racial anti-Semitism.

About this title

Book Description:

Low is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s, showing that recent revisionist arguments are strikingly similar to older views by extremist German nationalists, neoconservatives, and unrepentant Nazis.

About the Author:

Alfred D. Low is professor emeritus of history at Marquette University and was director of its German Institute. This book is his eleventh in German, Austrian, Russian, and diplomatic history.

About this edition

• Publisher: East European Monographs
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0880332867
• ISBN 13: 9780880332866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255