As it Really Was in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXXIV

Omer Bartov

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As It Really Was: Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by J Jürgen Matthäus, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

This article argues that while Christopher R. Browning provides a definitive account of the emergence of the “Final Solution,” his massive evidence can be interpreted differently by different scholars, as is the case with co-author Jürgen Matthäus’s much more functionalist interpretation. The article further points out that such reconstructions of the Holocaust tell us very little about how the genocide itself transpired, and suggests that this can only be accomplished by relying on evidence from the Jewish victims, whose testimonies can “rescue” the event from the Nazi bureaucratic abstractions that have often led historians to write strictly perpetrator-focused accounts.

As It Really Was: Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by J Jürgen Matthäus, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

This article argues that while Christopher R. Browning provides a definitive account of the emergence of the “Final Solution,” his massive evidence can be interpreted differently by different scholars, as is the case with co-author Jürgen Matthäus’s much more functionalist interpretation. The article further points out that such reconstructions of the Holocaust tell us very little about how the genocide itself transpired, and suggests that this can only be accomplished by relying on evidence from the Jewish victims, whose testimonies can “rescue” the event from the Nazi bureaucratic abstractions that have often led historians to write strictly perpetrator-focused accounts.

Products specifications
ISSN 0084-3296
Year 2006
ISBN 965-308-2
ISBN 978-965-525-047-3
Catalog No. 200610
No. of Pages 15 pp.
Format Electronic article in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXXIV, pp. 339-353, Edited by David Silberklang
Publisher Yad Vashem
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