The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust and German National Identity
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It is dense and I feel like it expected its reader to be familiar with many German historians who have grappled with the problem of the history of the Holocaust. I was familiar with none of the historians and I kept getting them confused.
Stalin felt no such constraint about the peoples of the Soviet Union. I read this for school a German history course but found it very difficult. Craig andGeoffEleymade theirvoices heard. Write a customer review. Likewise, emphasizing the uniqueness of the Holocaust also provides a better understanding of it: Tara rated it liked it Jun 16, A full depiction of the continuing controversy within the Federal German Republic about the nation's murderous past and haunted present
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When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here. A full depiction of the continuing controversy within the Federal German Republic about the nation's murderous past and haunted present For the very large segment of the American public that does not read German, the book is a discreet Baedeker to very unfamiliar--and often ugly--territory.
Norman Birnbaum The Nation Maier has written what is the best book available on the tangled and acrimonious debate among the German historians.
The Unmasterable Past
It is incisive in its analysis of the arguments on all sides of the debate and admirably objective in its assessment of them. Gordon Craig New York Review of Books A thorough and sensitive reflection on the 'historians' conflict' about the character and significance of Nazism that erupted in West Germany in Leon Botstein The New Republic. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
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Learn more about Amazon Prime. Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding.
The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion. Read more Read less. Prime Book Box for Kids. Add both to Cart Add both to List. Buy the selected items together This item: Ships from and sold by Amazon.
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Why dwell onanaccident of history halfa centuryago,perpetrated bya madman? WhenHarvardhistorianMaierwaswritinghisbook,thereunification of Germany was nowhere insight, nordidhe,along withsome oftheprincipals in thethenraging 'BattleoftheGermanHistorians,' regardHitler'sThirdReich anditsattendant crimes asanaccident ofhistory.
That,however, hasbeen the tenor oftheworks ofafewyet-influential nationalist West German historians, notablyErnst Nolte, Andreas Hillgruber now deceased ,and Michael Stfirmer,whoinitiatedthecontroversy in thelatterhalfof the os. What theyhadincommon was aproclivity forconcentrating onwhat theyregarded aspositive strains in themorerecentnational history, sayofthelasthundred years, and,conversely, todispel thevictor mentality ofnon-Germans writing, especially, aboutNationalSocialism: The trio, notin unisohbutindividually, resented the factthatcritical left-winghistorians hadadoptedthisreadingfor themselves andwere continually chastising theirownnation, ratherthanconcentrating on obvious patriotic highlights, suchas,for instance, thegrandeurof theSecond EmpireunderWilhelm n.
It wasnormalfor any countryto dwellonthe climaxes of itshistorywiththeobjectof honingpatriotism. Berlin historianNolte held that the genocideof Jews,whilehe didnot dispute thefactassuch, wasnotasuniqueasall thecritics claimed, norwas it wholly inkeeping withtheGerman character, forhadnotStalin provided prior andpossibly morehorribleexamples of mass murder,suchasthesystematic starvation of Ukrainianpeasants, whichcouldhaveinspiredHitler?
Cologne historianHillgruber averredthat the undeniableatrocities by a Naziwar machine wouldhavetobebalanced against unspeakable cruelties committed by Red Army soldiers advancing on Berlin in Erlangen's Stfirmer insisted ona needto implantan altogether morepositive attitudewithin the WestGerman citizenry, whichshould regarditspositive legacies withpride and throwoff a vanquished people'sguilt complex. In goodtime the three historians werecountered byleft-liberalscholars whoinsisted ontheneed for continued criticalintrospection, lest Germanydevelopanothernational complacency with potential for newintolerance: