Denying the Shoah in post-communist Eastern Europe
TitelDenying the Shoah in post-communist Eastern Europe
Call number940.5318/0415
Objektnummer08760b
UdgivelsesstedBerlin, Germany, Jerusalem, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Udgivelsesår
2012
Pagineringpp27-65
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9783110288148
NoterArticle from the book 'Holocaust denial: the politics of perfidy' pp27-65
Beskrivelse
Outright negation of the Holocaust is rare, but not insignificant. In general it is supported and inspired by the extreme nationalist exiled community. Deflective negationism is more diffuse. Rather than negating the Holocaust, it transfers the guilt for the perpetration of crimes to members of other nations, or minimizes the role of one's own nation. Nowhere in post-communist east Central Europe is selective negationism so blatant as in Romania, where some of its most emblematic figures are university professors