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This landmark book was first published in Germany, provoking both acclaim and controversy. In this history of historiography, Nicolas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post World War II Germany. He examines how they perceived and failed to perceive the Holocaust and how they interpreted and misinterpreted that historical fact using an arsenal of terms and concepts, arguments and explanations. This English-language translation is also a shortened and reorganized edition, which includes a new introduction by Berg reviewing and commenting on the response to the German editions. Notably, in this American edition, discussion of historian Joseph Wulf and his colleague and fellow Holocaust survivor Leon Poliakov has been united in one chapter. And special care has been taken to make clear to English speakers the questions raised about German historiographical writing. Translator Joel Golb comments, From 1945 to the present, the way historians have approached the Holocaust has posed deep-reaching problems regarding choice of language. . . . This book is consequently as much about language as it is about facts.

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An essential work for students of Holocaust historiography and West German history and a fascinating read for everyone interested in the historian's craft. This American edition adds important new dimensions to the debate. --Adi Gordon, Amherst College

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Nicolas Berg is a research fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute and teaches in the Department of History at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of several books about Jews and anti-Semitism in Germany. Joel Golb is an independent editor and literary historian. He lives in Berlin.

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