New myth of state: the eastern front. The most recent development in the discipline of history in the Federal Republic of Germany

There is a difference of opinion about the absolute incommensurability of the industrial mass annihilation carried out by the National Socialists, about its inconceivability and its incomparability to all other forms of organized death. The political culture of psychological repression becomes most evident when people cannot resist the temptation to assimilate the historically unique annihilation (Holocaust) to other familiar actions of killing