The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory—Essays in the History of Ideas

From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, and the problems of memorializing this difficult past, this essay collection tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction. As well as historical analyses of fascist and anti-fascist thinking, Stone analyses the challenges involved in writing history in general and Holocaust historiography in particular. Following an introductory essay on 'history and its discontents', the wide-ranging chapters deal with individual thinkers of very different sorts, such as Hannah Arendt, Rolf Gardiner, Jules Monnerot and Saul Friedlander, movements such as interwar rural revivalism, the contested translation of Mein Kampf, emigre anti-fascists' writings, and the relationship between memory and history, especially with respect to atrocities like genocide. This unique collection of essays on a wide variety of topics contributes to understanding the roots and consequences of mid-twentieth-century Europe's great catastrophe.

DAN STONE is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including, most recently, Histories of the Holocaust (OUP, 2010), The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (ed., OUP, 2012) and The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (ed., Berghahn, 2012).