Collected memories : Holocaust history and postwar testimony / / Christopher R. Browning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964024903321
• Autore: Browning Christopher R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wis., : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9786612269301; 9781282269309; 1282269305; 9780299189839; 029918983X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 105 p
• Collana: George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history
• Disciplina: 940.53/18
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Memory
• 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 (p. 87-105).
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Perpetrator Testimony: Another Look at Adolf Eichmann -- 2. Survivor Testimonies from Starchowice: Writing the History of a Factory Slave Labor Camp -- 3. Survivor Testimonies from Starachowice:The Final Days -- Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies that have arisen from the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt's uncritical acceptance of Adolf Eichmann's self-portrayal in Jerusalem; the conviction of Ivan Demjanuk (accused of being Treblinka death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible") on the basis of survivor testimony and its subsequent reversal by the Israeli Supreme Court; the debate in Poland sparked by Jan Gross's use of both survivor and communist courtroom testimony in his book Neighbors; and the conflict between Browning himself and Daniel Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners, regarding methodology and interpretation in the use of pre-trial testimony. Despite these controversies and challenges, Browning delineates the ways in which the critical use of ; such problematic sources can provide telling evidence for writing Holocaust history. He examines and discusses two starkly different sets of "collected memories"-the voluminous testimonies of notorious Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann and the testimonies of 175 survivors of an obscure complex of factory slave labor camps in the Polish town of Starachowice.