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Two German Perspectives on a German Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

Wolf Gruner  and
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Wolf Gruner*
Affiliation:
University of Southern California, CA
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
*
Email: [email protected]
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Extract

This contribution results from a place of serious discomfort regarding recent public and academic discussions in Germany, where Holocaust memory and its political instrumentalization have seemed to produce a growing dogmatism, harming academic freedom. Because we both direct university research centers in Berlin and Los Angeles dedicated to the study of the Holocaust, we have decided to join forces and share our particular German perspectives on this debate. Our views are in part generational, in part personal.

Keywords

Shoahgenocidecollective memoryEurocentrismsurvivor testimonies
Type
Discussion Forum: Holocaust Memory and Postcolonialism: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Debate
Information
Central European History , Volume 56 , Special Issue 2: Bordering the GDR: Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany , June 2023 , pp. 278 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Central European History Society of the American Historical Association

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