Holocaust debates: from main street to academia -- Holocaust uniqueness and American retribution -- Interventionism versus isolationism or Jewish Americans versus German Americans? -- The Holocaust "debates" of the 1930s and 1940s -- German ethnics and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum question -- The battle of Bitburg -- Browning and Goldhagen: man and superman, ordinary Germans or ordinary men? -- German American and Jewish American views of the Holocaust.
Summary:
"A history of Holocaust understanding (and misunderstanding) in German- and Jewish-American communities. Focusing on both past and recent debates in academia, Schuldiner provides expansive historical context for understanding the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography"--Provided by publisher.
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