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The Holocaust and the West German Historians
This landmark book, Nicholas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post-World War II Germany. He examines how they perceived--and failed to perceive--the Holocaust and how they interpreted and misinterpreted that historical fact using an arsenal of terms and concepts, arguments, and explanations.
The Invention of "functionalism"
Based on a lecture given at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem on 21 November 2001. Contends that a structuralist explanation of the Nazi genocide of the Jews emerged in West German historiography already in the 1950s. At this stage, the essence of the controversy between intentionalists and functionalists was the question of responsibility: was it certain individuals who were to blame or was it the whole system, with the inevitable entanglement of some individuals? The latter explanation was consonant with the apologetic arguments of Nazi criminals who were brought to trial. Examines the controversy in 1963-66 between Josef Wulf and Martin Broszat of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. The controversy focused on whether Wilhelm Hagen, the wartime head of the Office of Public Health in Warsaw, should be regarded as a war criminal (bearing responsibility for the execution of Jewish doctors and Jews who left the ghetto "illegally") or as a victim of the system. Broszat and the entire Institute adopted the latter view.
Holocaust Historiography in Context
The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography - the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history - is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust - when World War II was still raging and immediately after it had ended.
Luftmenschen
In der Alltagssprache verweist »Luft« auf das Unsichtbare, Unstete, Irreal-Phantastische. Historisch fand die Vorstellung vom »Luftmenschen« in einem überraschend breiten, wenig erforschten Diskurs um 1900 Resonanz. Vor allem die Wahrnehmung jüdischer Existenz in der Moderne wurde derart bebildert. Dafür schien die diasporische Lebensrealität der Juden ebenso zu sprechen wie die notorisch kritisierte soziale Verortung, bestimmte Berufsmuster oder andere als »typisch jüdisch« wahrgenommene Gemeinsamkeiten. Aber auch ganz allgemeine Phänomene der Zeit wie Migration und Verstädterung wurden mit der Metapher vom »Luftmenschen« kritisch von vermeintlich natürlicher Verwurzelung ab...
Images of Enmity and Hope
In a thought-provoking and challenging enterprise to rethink inter-human relationships, this book brings together a range of international scholars and peace practitioners who share their expertise and knowledge about the relationship between religion, conflict, and violence. Focusing on images of enmity, they show fascinating possibilities of how these images might be transformed into perspectives of hope and peace. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 15)
Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker
Nicolas Berg untersucht die Schwierigkeiten der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft im Umgang mit dem Holocaust. Geschichte und Gedächtnis, so Charles Péguy Anfang des Jahrhunderts, stehen im "rechten Winkel" zueinander: jene verlaufe parallel zum Ereignis, dieses gehe senkrecht durch es hindurch. Nicolas Berg zeigt, wie das Verhältnis der deutschen Nachkriegshistoriographie zur NS-Judenvernichtung nur mit dem Blick auf beides zugleich historisiert werden kann. Er ergänzt den historiographiegeschichtlichen Ansatz durch die Gedächtnisgeschichte und fragt nicht nur nach dem Wissensstand im Verlauf der Jahrzehnte, sondern auch nach seiner jeweiligen Historizität und seiner Veränderung. ...
The Betrayal of the Humanities
How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went...
History After Hitler
A comprehensive account of how German and American historians after World War II tackled the question of the roots of National Socialism, History After Hitler traces the development of a transatlantic scholarly community as a key part of the intellectual history of the Federal Republic and of Cold War German-American relations.
Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities
This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race. Its aim is to begin to fill in this significant lacuna. If, in the decades following World War II and the Holocaust – years that witnessed European decolonization and the African-American civil rights movement – the concept of ‘race’ slowly but surely lost its legitimacy as a cultural, political and scientific category, for much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century concepts of race enjoyed widespread currency in numerous fields of knowledge such as the history of art, history, musicology, or philosophy. Bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields, this is the first collective attempt to address the history of notions of race in the humanities as a whole.
