Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-299-18984-6
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 195 g

Reihe: George L. Mosse the History of

Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies surrounding the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt's uncritical acceptance of Eichmann's self-portrayal; the conviction of Ivan Demjanjuk on the basis of survivor testimony and its subsequent reversal by the Israeli Supreme Court; the debate in Poland sparked by Jan Gross's use of both survivor and communist courtroom testimony in his book Neighbors; and the conflict between Browning and Daniel Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners, regarding the use of pre-trial testimony. Despite these controversies and challenges, Browning delineates the ways in which the critical use of such problematic sources can provide telling evidence for writing Holocaust history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Browning, Christopher R.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of many books, including Ordinary Men. The Path to Genocide, and Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. In 2002 he delivered the first of the George L. Mosse Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, upon which this book is based.