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Title: In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past by Richard J. Evans ISBN: 0-679-72348-X Publisher: Random House (P) Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $8.95

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Summary: An excellent introduction to the Historikerstreit
Comment: Richard Evans offers the student of modern German history an excellent review of the so-called Historikerstreit, which took place amongst academics in the mid to late 1980s. He outlines the basic arguments of those "neoconservative" historians who attempted to relativize the crimes of the Nazi regime. Evans focuses primarily on Ernst Nolte and Andreas Hillgruber, both of whom claimed that Nazi atrocities were justifiable responses to impending violence on the part of the Soviet Union. These historians also asserted that the Holocaust was not fundamentally different from Stalin's murder of Soviet citizens in the Gulags or from the massacre of Armenians in 1915 by the Turks. Evans clearly sides with the majority of historians when he argues that these attempts at relativizing Nazi crimes are irresponsible. Overall, this book is quite useful to the serious student who wants a quick review of a heated historiographical debate in modern German history.