Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima

Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990

By: Richard J. B. Bosworth

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Paperback | 28 April 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about `the past that would not fade away'' have been reasonably well-known. But in this book, Richard Bosworth maintains that Germany is not unique. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well as in Germany the traumatic history of the `long Second World War'' has remained crucial to the culture and the politics of post-war societies. Each has felt a compelling need to interpret this past event and thus to `explain'' `Auschwitz'' and `Hiroshima''. Bosworth explores the bitter controversies that have developed around a particular interpretation of the war, such as disputes over A.J.P. Taylor''s, Origins of the Second World War , Marcel Ophul''s film, The Sorrow and the Pity , Renzo De Felice''s biography of Mussolini in the 1970s or in post- Glasnost debates about the historiographies of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Richard Bosworth''s book is a wide-ranging and thoughtful excursion into comparative history.

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"Bosworth's book has established a stanydard to measure the numerous explanations of how the history of the Second World War has been fashioned...Overall, [the essays] illustrate the difficulties of maintaining the uniqueness of events like the Holocaust in teh face of the efforts of those who would relegate them to one of a number of immoral acts during and preceding the war."-"Canadian Military History

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