E 405 Lecture Notes - Deborah Lipstadt, New Historicism, Elmo Roper
Document Summary
They function as a kind of workshop where cultural problems, hopes, and obsessions are addressed or avoided. Sometimes the absence of a narrative tells something. Apply this to the holocaust texts read for this week. Difference between when the events happened and when the book was written/published. Holocaust denier austin j. app codified holocaust denial into eight fundamental tenets. Emigration, not extermination was the nazi plan for dealing with germany"s jewish problem . His main evidence for this assertion is that if germany had planned total extermination, no jews would have survived. No jews were gassed in any german camps and probably not at auschwitz either. He argued that the crematoria were designed to cremate those who died from other causes. Jews who disappeared during the years of wwii and have not been accounted for did so in territories under soviet, rather than german, control.
