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  • Memory or History?

  • Mark Roseman
  • Journal: Central European History / Volume 56 / Issue 2 / June 2023
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023, pp. 289-293
  • Print publication: June 2023

  • Reviewing the the so-called “Second Historian's Debate”, in which he had played such an important role, in February 2022, Michael Rothberg wrote that the opponents to his multidirectional approach were confusing history and memory. “Naturally, history and memory cannot be entirely separated from each other, but the target of my own work and also of Moses's catechism essay is public memory, not historical scholarship.” I understand what he means about not targeting the discipline. Rothberg and Moses are both aware that many positions controversial in the German public sphere have long been accepted in the academy, a distinction they clearly make in their critiques. But the comment did prompt me to wonder whether part of the problem of the debate is that Rothberg's and Moses's critique of memory practices is actually more about history than it lets on.

  • German History Writing and the Holocaust

  • Mark Roseman
  • Journal: Central European History / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / March 2018
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2018, pp. 96-101
  • Print publication: March 2018

  • From Central European History’s founding in 1968, Nazism commanded a great deal of attention in the journal, but it was only after many years that this was also true of the Holocaust. A quick search on JSTOR shows that, of the articles and reviews mentioning the Holocaust, less than 10 percent were published in the journal's first twenty years, and over two-thirds were written between 2000 and 2014 (the last year of the JSTOR search). Of course, there is some semantics involved, as other terms such as Final Solution were sometimes used in earlier decades. But there is no doubt about the underlying trend, both in terms of the growing number of books that have come up for review, and the increasing number of important articles. In the 1970s, only one essay, by Lawrence Stokes, was devoted to the Holocaust. The 1980s saw a review article by Richard Breitman and a seminal piece on the ghettos by Christopher Browning. By contrast, since 2000, CEH has published around ten major contributions to Holocaust scholarship.

Beyond the Racial State
  • Rethinking Nazi Germany
  • Edited by Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, Richard F. Wetzell
  • Published online: 10 November 2017
  • Print publication: 16 November 2017
  • The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

  • Between Acceptance, Exceptionalism and Continuity: German Jewry, Antisemitism and the Holocaust

  • MARK ROSEMAN
  • Journal: Contemporary European History / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / February 2010
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2009, pp. 55-74
  • Print publication: February 2010
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  • 1 - Introduction: generation conflict and German history 1770–1968

  • Mark Roseman, Keele University
  • Book: Generations in Conflict
  • Published online: 19 October 2009
  • Print publication: 20 April 1995, pp 1-46

  • Summary

    Why adopt a generational perspective on modern German history? One obvious reason is the striking persistence of youthful rebellion in Germany. From the 1770s onwards, German society found its values and norms subjected to recurrent and intense challenge by rebellious youth, initially by the young writers of the Sturm und Drang in the late eighteenth century, then by the youthful enthusiasts of the Young Germany movement in the 1830s and 1840s, later by the thousands of youngsters who climbed the Hohe Meiβner mountain, turning their backs on Wilhelmine Germany. In the post-1918 era youthful separatism reached its zenith, with almost half of all German youth organised in some group or other. The Weimar Republic's short life was punctuated by the regular spectacle of youngsters taking to the streets and its demise was heralded by young protesters in brown shirts, carrying their torchlit zealotry through the length and breadth of Germany. And more recently, few voices of the international youth movement in the 1960s attained the self-confident, iconoclastic authority of a Rudi Dutschke or rejected the system with quite such uncompromising ruthlessness as did an Ulrike Meinhof.

    A second reason is that few other nations have experienced such a succession of dramatic breaks in their historical narrative. Germany emerged as a nation only in 1871, industrialising at breakneck pace to become one of the world's leading powers by the end of the century. Then in 1914 came an increasingly total war, followed after four years by defeat, upheaval, the violent overthrow of the old regime and the creation of Germany's first democracy.

Generations in Conflict
  • Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany 1770–1968
  • Mark Roseman
  • Published online: 19 October 2009
  • Print publication: 20 April 1995
  • This is an English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme, first published in 1995. It addresses, first, the extraordinary power and persistence of a German tradition of youthful rebellion extending from the Sturm und Drang in the eighteenth century to the student revolts of 1968 and, second, the impact of the dramatic ruptures and discontinuities in modern German history on the formation and interaction of successive historical cohorts. Using a variety of different approaches, including literacy and oral history, the collection pays particular attention to the way generational identities interacted with those of class and gender. The book adds to our understanding of generations, of the balance between continuity and discontinuity in modern German history, of the generational roots of National Socialism and the Hitler Youth generation's impact on East and West German society.

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