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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2008 22(3):411-440; doi:10.1093/hgs/dcn039
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Narratives of Innocence and Victimhood: The Reception of the Miniseries Holocaust in Italy

Emiliano Perra

University of Bristol


  Abstract

In Italy, the heavy politicization of public discourse, together with dominant cultural narratives positing the country as a "victim" nation in the Second World War, influenced the reception of NBC's miniseries Holocaust. These influences revealed themselves in three main trends: the discussion of the country's involvement in the Holocaust in highly self-acquitting terms that perpetuated a variant of the "good Italian" stereotype; the peculiar domestication of the debate on the "Americanization of the Holocaust"; and the substantially uncontested circulation of various universalizations in the discussion of the program's "meanings."


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