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The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich. (book reviews)

Asian Folklore Studies,  October, 1996  by Szippl, Richard F.

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VERGANGENHEITSBEWALTIGUNG, "coming to terms with the past," has been a controversial topic in Germany for many years as scholars, intellectuals, and public figures have faced the legacy of National Socialism. The issue gained particular prominence during the Historikerstreit [historians' controversy] of 1986.

The debate centered on the uniqueness of the Nazi annihilation of the Jews, that is, on whether it could be compared to other cases of genocide without somehow relativizing or diminishing its horror. Ernst NOLTE, one of the central figures in the controversy, referred to ...

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