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The Holocaust and the revival of psychological history

By Hughes , Judith M

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781107690448, 9781107056824, 1107056829, 9781107297876, 1107297877, 1107690447
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4830939 bytes)
Pages
xi, 188 Seiten\202
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Collective memory;Collective memory--Germany;EthicJewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography;GermanyJewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects;HoJewish (1939-1945)--Historiography;HolocaustJewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects;Coll

Description

Why did men and women in one of the best educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how historians' efforts to grapple anew with matters of actors' meanings, intentions, and purposes have prompted a return to psychoanalytically informed ways of thinking. Hughes makes her case with fine-grained analyses of books by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ian Kershaw, Daniel Goldhagen, Saul Friedländer, Christopher Browning, Jan Gross, Hannah Arendt and Gitta Sereny. All of the authors pose psychological questions; the more astute among them shed fresh light on the Holocaust - without making the past any less disturbing. Hitler -- Nazi Germany and the Jews -- Willing executioners -- Examinations of conscience -- A battle with truth.

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