Search for dissertations about: "Holocaust historiography"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Holocaust historiography.

  2. 1. Cultures of Denial : Comparing Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Denial

    Author : Maria Karlsson; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Denial; denialism; genocide; Holocaust; Armenian genocide; 1915; negationism; historiography; scholarship; Bernard Lewis; Arno Mayer; objectivity; genocide studies; revisionism;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the phenomenon of modern genocide denial, focusing in particular on the Western denialist cultures surrounding the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide of 1915.While those denying, rationalizing or trivializing the Holocaust may be completely separated from those engaging in denial of the Armenian genocide, both cultures of denial have undergone similar historical phases and developments. READ MORE

  4. 2. "I wanted to know how this deed was done" : Raul Hilberg, the Holocaust and History

    Author : Olof Bortz; Pär Frohnert; Lars M Andersson; Tim Cole; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Raul Hilberg; Holocaust historiography; political science; American intellectual history; Jewish history; History; historia; Historia;

    Abstract : Raul Hilberg was a pioneer of Holocaust studies and for many decades the Holocaust scholar par excellence. He embarked upon the study of the Nazi genocide after the war, and established the understanding of the Holocaust as a bureaucratically administered “destruction process,” carried out by men who were not different from the German population in general. READ MORE