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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791086303321

Autore

Bartov Omer

Titolo

Germany's war and the Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : disputed histories / / Omer Bartov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8014-6881-7

1-322-50296-X

0-8014-6882-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Eastern Front - Atrocities

National socialism - Historiography

War crimes

World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities

Germany Armed Forces History World War, 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE. War of Destruction -- 1. Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War ll -- 2. From Blitzkrieg to Total War: Image and Historiography -- PART TWO. Extermination Policies -- 3. Killing Space: The Final Solution as Population Policy -- 4. Ordering Horror: Conceptualizations of the Concentrationary Universe -- 5. Ordinary Monsters: Perpetrator Motivation and Monocausal Explanations -- PART THREE. Interpretations -- 6. Germans as Nazis: Goldhagen's Holocaust and the World -- 7. Jews as Germans: Victor Klemperer Bears Witness -- 8. Germans as Jews: Representations of Absence in Postwar Germany -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Omer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, 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. Germany's War and the Holocaust both deepens our understanding of a crucial period in history and serves as an invaluable introduction to the vast body of literature in the field of Holocaust studies.Drawing on his background as a military historian to probe the nature of German warfare, Bartov considers the postwar 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 new 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.