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Wer der Vorstellung, der Nationalstaat sei «the skin that contains the experience of the past», ihre Selbstverständlichkeit nehmen möchte, muß Alternativen zu einer Geschichtsforschung und Geschichtsschreibung im Rahmen von Nationalstaat, Nationalgesellschaft und Nationalkultur vorschlagen. An solchen Vorschlägen mangelt es nicht. Sie gehen, grob unterschieden, in drei Richtungen: erweiterte Nationalgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, Weltgeschichte.
The Holocaust and Genocide
(2004)
How does the Holocaust relate to genocide as a concept and an event? This question has caused considerable controversy because scholarly discourse and identity politics cannot be separated neatly. While the term 'genocide' was coined during the Second World War and enshrined in International law in 1948, the Holocaust as a specifically Jewish tragedy did not become an object of consciousness until almost two decades later. Ever since, those highlighting a distinctive experience for European Jewry have sought to separate it from that of other victims of the Nazis as well as other cases of ethnic and racial extermination.