Holocaust historiography and cultural history

Rather than seek to provide economic, social, military or other factors that provide a meaningful context for understanding the Holocaust, we should assume that the Nazis meant what they said, that they created reality to fit in with their belief system. Only in this way can the Holocaust become comprehensible - as the outcome of a German narrative through which the perpetrators made sense of the world. This includes responses to Dan Stone's article by: Dan Michman, Carolyn J. Dean, Wendy Lower, Federico Finchelstein, Dominick LaCapra