The Problematic of Characterizing Genocide A Reading in the Techniques of Historical Trends to Explain the Jewish Genocide

Abstract

"The research is an attempt designed to diagnose the problematic of characterizing the genocide by adopting the ""Holocaust"" as a paradigm for the hypothesis addressed by the research, reviewing the trends of historians' interpretation of the genocide since the end of World War II (1945), as well as tracking the historical stations that those interpretations have gone through, the problems and crises that they provoked in Germany, and the response of German historical circles for the challenge imposed by those interpretations. The research is divided into two topics: the first: The Historians' Trends in Interpreting the Nazi Genocide of the Jews until the 1980s. As for the second: the ""Holocaust"" Historiography, the Nazi Knot, and the Identity Crisis in Germany."