Hitler should not be repressed by Stalin and Pol Pot: on the attempts of German historians to relativize the enormity of the Nazi crimes
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Hitler should not be repressed by Stalin and Pol Pot: on the attempts of German historians to relativize the enormity of the Nazi crimes
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318072/0050
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07295L
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Humanities Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1994
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp85-92
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]1573925916
NotesArticle from the book 'Forever in the shadow of Hitler'pp85-92
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The search for a consensual past and the cultivation of an identity-promoting memory are taking different forms. Neither by relativizing the Nationalist-Socialist period and other dark points of German history should historians react to the challenge. Their task is to describe, explain, and present past reality with scholarly means, and then help set the present in as enlightened a relationship as possible to the past