Speaking in public about the murder of the Jews: what did the Holocaust mean to the Germans?
TitleSpeaking in public about the murder of the Jews: what did the Holocaust mean to the Germans?
Author
Call number940.5318/0371
Object number07551h
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherContinuum
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp133-155
MaterialArticle
ISBN9781441129871
NotesArticle from the book "Years of extermination" pp133-155
Description
Describes how the Nazis' success in portraying the Jews as the driving force behind the war influenced German complicity, silence or indifference regarding the fate of European Jewry. Whereas for Jews the Holocaust framed their understanding of the war, for Germans it was the war that provided their frame of meaning to the Holocaust