Many got to keep the riches they acquired through their part on an act of genocide.
Meanwhile, historians grappling with the war through the "#Historikerstreit" drew invidious comparisons between communism and fascism, equating the two ideologies and tacitly excusing the torture and killing of political prisoners (this tale is still told today - in America! My kid's AP history course made this exact point last year).
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Michael Rothberg reflecting on #Historikerstreit 2.0:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17506980221133511
#historikerstreit #histodons #academicchatter
Eine weitere vorzügliche Linksammlung von @serdarguenes :
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An Anthology:
German Catechism – Holocaust, Memory and (Post-)colonialism
#historikerstreit #GermanCatechism #holocaust #germany #colonialism #CatechismDebate #debate #anthology #antisemitism #postkolonialismus
https://serdargunes.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/a-debate-german-catechism-holocaust-and-post-colonialism/
https://twitter.com/serdarguenes/status/1403723627762229250
#postkolonialismus #antisemitism #anthology #debate #CatechismDebate #colonialism #germany #holocaust #germancatechism #historikerstreit