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2 - The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2025

By
Dan Stone
Edited by
Mark Roseman  and
Dan Stone
Mark Roseman
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Summary

This chapter considers the shift in Holocaust historiography since the end of the Cold War to focus on eastern Europe and, increasingly, on neglected areas such as south-eastern Europe. Noteworthy too is the increasing diversity in methodologies, including digital humanities, gender history, family history, microhistory, transnational history, and spatial, geographical, and material approaches. Each of these strands approaches sources differently, meaning that what historians consider to be a usable source has also changed a great deal. This diversity reflects also the changing face of the historical profession itself and the world in which it operates. Our awareness has grown that the Holocaust was a continent-wide crime committed by willing participants everywhere. The historiography is moving in two opposite directions: towards more microhistories, but also towards greater understanding of the continent-wide scale of the Holocaust, with a particular focus on the hitherto unacknowledged extent of participation in the killings by non-Germans all across Europe. How to reconcile them and bring all of this research together is the challenge of our hyper-productive times.

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Recent historiography of the Holocaustsources of Holocaust researchmethodologycollaboratorsbystandersdiversification and internationalization of Holocaust researchgender and the Holocaustother victimsdigital methods and the Holocaustafterlife of the Holocaust
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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 40 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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