Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

In the past ten years, the field of scholarship on the Nazi era in general and the Holocaust in particular has seen massive transformations. Why read a new book that combines texts published for the most part in the 1980s and 1990s, even if they were written by one of the most preeminent historians?...

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Veröffentlicht in:Central European history 2009, Vol.42 (3), p.582-584
1. Verfasser: Matthäus, Jürgen
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In the past ten years, the field of scholarship on the Nazi era in general and the Holocaust in particular has seen massive transformations. Why read a new book that combines texts published for the most part in the 1980s and 1990s, even if they were written by one of the most preeminent historians? Ian Kershaw himself seems doubtful about the merits of this anthology, especially in light of the fact that the editors arranged his articles along topical, not chronological lines which makes it more difficult to retrace the evolution of Kershaw's interpretation
ISSN:0008-9389
1569-1616
DOI:10.1017/S0008938909990628