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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1997 11(3):396-411; doi:10.1093/hgs/11.3.396
© 1997 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Review Essays

American and German Perspectives on the Goldhagen Debate: History, Identity, and the Media

Mitchell G. Ash

Institute of History, University of Vienna

Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners has stirred controversy both in the United States and Germany for more than a year. Writing from the perspective of an American historian living and working in Germany and Austria, Mitchell Ash compares the reception of the book in both countries. In particular, he examines Goldhagen's theses and the debate that ensued for their impact on Holocaust historiography and their political overtones, and for the role played by the media, including the Internet, in promoting and shaping discussion of the book. Ash shows that while there were important similarities between public and scholarly responses to the book in the US and Germany, there also were important differences. Most disturbing in this regard was the wide gap that the debate revealed between experts' and non-experts' (or historians' and non-historians') views of the book.


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