Holocaust psychologist Nathan Durst claims that Hitler showed how, with respect to the Jews, the most murderous fantasies could be realized. Comparing anti-Semitism to negative attitudes levied against other groups is therefore grossly misguided. Jews must be extremely wary whenever … [Read More]
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In her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, historian Deborah Lipstadt examines Holocaust denial: the myth that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis never occurred. Once the deniers have absolved the … [Read More]
The publicity focus on Holocaust issues in the last decade may cause one to mistakenly assume that its main aspects have, by now, been well researched. Yehuda Bauer, the director emeritus of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad … [Read More]
“After the Second World War, the main effort to bring leading Nazi war criminals to justice was the Nuremberg trials. That court however, was not a permanent institution. Following the conclusion of those proceedings, the major responsibility for prosecuting such … [Read More]
“As early as 1941 and 1942 the Allies made preliminary plans for how to organize post-Hitler Europe. Yet the Jewish question did not feature in these early American, British and Russian formulations of the future.” This according to David Bankier, … [Read More]
The ‘new’ anti-Semitism is more a continuation and development than a departure. Few people realize the extent to which anti-Semitism was rampant in post-Holocaust Europe, and how the legacy of that period laid the basis for today’s resurgence of European … [Read More]
I This book leads me as a philosopher to speculate on history. The classical German tradition in philosophy was from Kant to Hegel. Everything after has been, in diirftiger Zeit, philosophically a decline. Gobineau? Houston Stewart Chamber lain? Even Marx? … [Read More]
It took me a long time to realize that to understand the post-Holocaust period, a number of issues should be grouped in a single subject of analysis. These include inter alia: survivors’ reintegration in the post-war society, their social and … [Read More]
Ein regelmäßiges Missverständnis lautet, dass Juden keine Antisemiten sein können. Es ist aber leicht zu erklären, warum das falsch ist. Jeder Text kann gemäß der FRA-Definition dahingehend analysiert werden, ob er antisemitisch ist oder nicht. Ist er es, dann wird … [Read More]
Sozialismus definiert seine wichtigen Charakteristika regelmäßig als „Solidarität mit den Schwachen“. In der konfusen heutigen Situation bedeutet das oft, dass Sozialdemokraten im palästinensisch-israelischen Konflikt ihren festen Blick von der völkermörderischen Hetze der Hamas und der Glorifizierung von Mördern seitens der … [Read More]