Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe [Hardcover]

No one has written more incisively about the dynamics and divergences of German and Jewish memory of the Third Reich than Saul Friedlander. His new book is a singularly important contribution to our understanding of the evolving memory of the Nazi period within German and Jewish historical consciousness. Alvin H. Rosenfeld

... This volume is of importance not only for Holocaust research itself, but also for understanding German and Israeli societies. Bulletin of the Arnold and Leora Finkler Institute of the Holocaust Research

A world-famous scholar analyzes the historiography of the Nazi period, including conflicting interpretations of the Holocaust and the impact of German reunification.

Introduction

I. German Struggles with Memory
II. A Conflict of Memories? The New German Debates about the Final Solution
III. The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness
IV. Reflections on the Historicization of National Socialism
V. Martin Broszat and the Historicization of National Socialism
VI. The Final Solution : On the Unease in Historical Interpretation
VII. Trauma and Transference

Index

SAUL FRIEDLANDER is the author of numerous books, including When Memory Comes and Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death.