Réflexions sur l'historisation du national-socialisme - article ; n°1 ; vol.16, pg 43-54

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1987 - Volume 16 - Numéro 1 - Pages 43-54
Reflections on the historization of national-socialism, Saul Friedländer.
A debate on how to study the 1933-1945 period has been opened by several German historians. They favor a « historization » of Nazism, which would make it possible to set those years in the continuity of German history. But reconsidering the national-socialist past according to such criteria is misleading ; above ail, it denies the specificity of the Hitlerite plan : deciding in Hannah Arendt's words « who is and who is not to live on our planet ».
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.