An edition of In Hitler’s Shadow: West German Historians And The Attempt To Escape From The Nazi Past
(1989)
In Hitler's shadow
West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past
1st ed.
by Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS
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This book is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience from guilt about its Nazi past. These new revisionists argue that Germans have no more to be ashamed of than other peoples: Auschwitz, they say, does not stand alone in history; it was merely one of a number of similar crimes, from Stalin's purges to the mass murders committed by Pol Pot. The German army was not trying to impose a genocidal dictatorship; it was fighting to prevent a Communist takeover of Europe. - Back cover.
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The burden of guilt
Asiatic deeds
Bulwark against Bolshevism?
Auschwitz and elsewhere
Reshaping Central Europe
Germany and the West
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Bibliography: p. [186]-189.
Includes index.
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