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Memory (London: Bloomsbury, 2000), p. 2.
17. Novick, Holocaust , p. 69.
18. Ibid., p. 105.
19. Ibid., p. 65.
20. Ibid., p. 144.
21. Ibid., p. 164.
22. Ibid., p. 202.
23. Ibid., p. 232.
24. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Versa, 2000), passim.
25. Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust and German National Identity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 55.
26. Ibid., p. 56.
27. Richard J. Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (London: Tauris, 1989), p. 13.
28. Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1999), p. 36.
29. Maier, Unmasterable Past , p. 101.
30. Ibid., p. 54.
31. Wulf Kansteiner, In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television and Politics after Auschwitz (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006), pp. 54–56.
32. London Daily Mail , February 15, 2007, p. 43.
33. Steve Crawshaw, An Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century (London: Continuum, 2004), p. 199.
34. Peter Watson, “Battle over Hitler’s Loot,” London Observer Magazine , July 21, 1996, pp. 28ff.
35. Pierre Péan, A French Youth: François Mitterrand, 1934–1947 (Paris: Fayard, 1994).
36. Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), passim.
37. Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1981).
38. See Marrus and Paxton, Vichy France , pp. 341 ff. for what Vichy knew about the Final Solution.
39. See, for example, Lee Yanowitch, “France to Boost Efforts to Restore Nazi-looted Property to Jews,” Jewish News Weekly , December 4, 1998.40. Times (London), October 13, 2007, p. 52.
41. Richard J. Evans, Rereading German History: From Unification to Re-unification, 1800–1996 (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 149 ff.
42. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners (New York: Random House, 1996), p. 77.
43. Ibid., p. 465.
44. Evans, Rereading German History , pp. 155ff.
45. Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the German Ideology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961/1974), p. 202. A comparison of anti-Semitic acts and attitudes toward Jews in the popular press of Germany and four European nations (France, Great Britain, Italy, and Romania) from 1899 through 1939 demonstrates that Germans, before 1933, were among the least anti-Semitic people. William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate:Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Chapter 6. Until that point, no census in Germany had gathered data on ethnicity. Quoted in Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003), p. 9. Fritz Stern also tells us that Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, whose book The Third Reich was a major work of cultural pessimism in the Weimar Republic, helping to create the mood in which the National Socialist Party could thrive, showed no sign of anti-Semitism in his many books published before World War I (see Chapter 33).
46. Norman G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn, A Nation on Trial: The Goldenhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (New York: Holt), 1998.
47. Fritz Stern, Einstein’s German World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 276–278.
48. Finkelstein and Birn, Nation on Trial , p. 139.
49. Richard J. Evans, Rereading German History , p. 164. Goldhagen also avoids saying just what anti-Semitism means. As Clive James points out in his essay on the Austrian Jewish dramatist Arthur Schnitzler, “If he encountered anti-Semitism in grand [Viennese] drawing rooms, there were few grand drawing-rooms he could not enter.” Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (London: Picador, 2007), pp. 684–705.
50. Stern, Einstein’s German World , p. 287.
51. Crawshaw, Easier Fatherland , p. 144.
52. Kansteiner, In Pursuit , pp. 104, 109, 116 and 210. A. Dirk Moses, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), especially pp. 55–73. Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich, Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern: Grundlagen kollektiven Verhalterns (Munich: Piper, 1967). Ralf Blank et al ., German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival , trans. Derry