Description:
Contextualises Friedlander's authoritative work within Holocaust historiography, and opens new directions in the study of the Holocaust and twentieth century genocide.
Brief description: Paul Betts is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. His publications include Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann, 2008).
Review Quotes: This collection of essays provides an exceptional compendium of informed and thought-provoking commentaries both justifiably honoring and critically assessing a masterwork of history, memory, and mourning that will, for the foreseeable future, be crucial in shaping the study and prompting newer understandings of the "final solution" and extreme historical processes in general. The reader...will be consistently challenged to rethink pre-existing approaches and interpretations.