From Provocation towards a New Historical Paradigma? Goldhagen''s Hitler''s Willing Executioners and the Wehrmachtausstellung Fifteen Years On
2010
Abstrakt
This article deals with two public and historiographical debates that have recently taken place regarding war crimes committed by Nazi Germany, namely the reception of Daniel Goldhagen''s book "Hitler''s Willing Executioners" and the "Wehrmachtausstellung" exhibition in Germany and Austria. It argues that both the publication of Goldhagen''s book and the exhibition marked significant moments in historical research since the interpretations which these events brought about led to new approaches to the history of Nazism drawing on historical anthropology, history of every day life, and history of mentality.