Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima History Writing and the Second World War 1945-1990

by R. J. B. Bosworth

Ch. 4 (pp. 73-93), "The 'Historikerstreit' and the Relativisation of Auschwitz, " deals with new trends in the contemporary historiography of the Second World War and the Holocaust, attempts to reassess the history of the war and the genocide and their meaning, and the debates between historians. Analyzes the views of the intentionalists and functionalists, the "Historikerstreit, " and the works of other historians.

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