The Germans : absent nationality and the Holocaust /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cohen, Yehuda, 1931-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Series:	Heritage, society and national identity in the European Union.
Subjects:	National characteristics, German > History. Nationalism > Germany > History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching. Antisemitism > Germany > History. Race > Philosophy > History. National socialism > Germany > Philosophy. Jews, German > History.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. The state of Holocaust studies
An overview of Holocaust studies and its causes : is there a fundamental scholarly bias?
The roots : anti-Semitism or German theory of race?
pt. 2. Fateful triangle : German nationality, race theory, Jews
The first apex : the problematic nature of the German national identity
The second apex : race theory reexamined
The third apex : German Jews
The fateful triangle : some insights for the future
pt. 3. German identity in the post-Holocaust era
German self-image vis-à-vis the Holocaust
Post-war German structure, attitudes, and identity
Concluding chapter: Germans, the Holocaust, and German nationality : where do we go from here?