Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
3 - From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
Summary
This semi-autobiographical essay offers the perspective from the 1970s to the present of a leading historian of Nazi Germany. It shows how a series of paradigms in one way or another obscured the Holocaust, while at the same time underling the importance of the scholarship on the Final Solution that took off in the 1960s. A particular focus of the essay is the debates around fascism and the difficulty of acknowledging the centrality of racism within the fascist model.
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 62 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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