RT Review
T1 Belonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918–1945, Thomas Kühne (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2010), vii + 216 pp., cloth, 40.00, e-book, 29.27
JF Holocaust and genocide studies
VO 26
IS 1
SP 141
OP 144
A1 Showalter, Dennis E.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1814480692
AB The participation of the German people in the Holocaust remains a subject as controversial as it is uncomfortable. At one extreme stands the hypothesis of a “culture of genocide” traceable to the Lutheran Reformation, the Middle Ages, or even further back. At the other is the construction of a people cowed, deceived, and brutalized—essentially excluded from participation in a genocide inspired by Hitler and implemented by his minions., Thomas Kühne, Clark University's Strassler Family Professor in the Study of Holocaust History, has a distinguished record of achievement in contextualizing the Holocaust in the social and cultural history of modern Germany. This volume summarizes and epitomizes his approach and conclusions.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/hgs/dcs019