HI HITLER!

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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History at Fairfield University Connecticut. His area of specialization is the history and memory of the Nazi era. He is the author of several books including Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (2011) which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of visual arts: The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge 2005): Munich and Memory: Architecture Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000) and the coedited work Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (2008). He is also the editor of the forthcoming volume of Jewish alternate histories If Only We Had Died in Egypt! What Ifs of Jewish History from Abraham to Zionism also to be published by Cambridge University Press. Rosenfeld is a frequent contributor to the Forward newspaper and edits the blog The Counterfactual History Review.Analyzes how the Nazi past has become increasingly normalized within western memory since the start of the new millennium.In recent years traditional moralistic views of the Nazi past in western intellectual and cultural life have been challenged by a powerful wave of normalization. Hi Hitler! examines how the exceptionality of the Nazi legacy has been progressively diminished by a sustained effort to relativize universalize and aestheticize it.In recent years traditional moralistic views of the Nazi past in western intellectual and cultural life have been challenged by a powerful wave of normalization. Hi Hitler! examines how the exceptionality of the Nazi legacy has been progressively diminished by a sustained effort to relativize universalize and aestheticize it.The Third Reichs legacy is in flux. For much of the postwar period the Nazi era has been viewed moralistically as an exceptional period of history intrinsically different from all others. Since the turn of the millennium however this view has been challenged by a powerful wave of normalization. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld charts this important international trend by examining the shifting representation of the Nazi past in contemporary western intellectual and cultural life. Focusing on works of historical scholarship popular novels counterfactual histories feature films and Internet websites he identifies notable changes in the depiction of the Second World War the Holocaust and the figure of Adolf Hitler himself. By exploring the origins of these works and assessing the controversies they have sparked in the United States and Europe Hi Hitler! offers a fascinating and timely analysis of the shifting status of the Nazi past in western memory.Introduction: 1. A good war no more: the new World War II revisionism: 2. From history to memory and back again: debating the Holocausts uniqueness: 3. Probing the limits of speculation: counterfactualism and the Holocaust: 4. Nazis that never were: new alternate histories of the Third Reich: 5. Humanizing Hitler: th

Data Publikacji: 2014-12-04
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