Resistance to psychology in Holocaust scholarship

Journal of Psychohistory

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 124-135

  Beisel, David ^a  

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ARTICLE; CRIME; HISTORY; JEW; PSYCHOLOGY;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLOCAUST; JEWS; PSYCHOLOGY; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 0033185735     PISSN: 01453378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (43)

1. "Hitler's Fatal Attraction," Producer, Bill Treharne Jones. A B.B.C. production in association with Arts and Entertainment Network, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Television New Zealand.
2. John Lukas, The Hitler of History (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997), p. 40.
3. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, "Like a Thorne in the Flesh," Die Zeit, May 24, 1996; English translation in German History, Vol. 15, No.1 (1997); reprinted in Robert R. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). p.100; Donald L. Niewyk, ed., Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.22-23.
4. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, "Like a Thorne in the Flesh," Die Zeit, May 24, 1996; English translation in German History, Vol. 15, No.1 (1997); reprinted in Robert R. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). p.100; Donald L. Niewyk, ed., Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.22-23.
5. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, "Like a Thorne in the Flesh," Die Zeit, May 24, 1996; English translation in German History, Vol. 15, No.1 (1997); reprinted in Robert R. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). p.100; Donald L. Niewyk, ed., Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.22-23.
6. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, "Like a Thorne in the Flesh," Die Zeit, May 24, 1996; English translation in German History, Vol. 15, No.1 (1997); reprinted in Robert R. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). p.100; Donald L. Niewyk, ed., Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.22-23.
7. Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, eds., The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Uknown, the Disputed and the Re-examined. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; and Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998).
8. Ibid., p.4.
9. Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
10. Headlines preceding Amos Elon, "The Antagonist Liberator," The New York Times Magazine, January 26, 1997, p. 40.
11. Rudolph Augustein's interview with Goldhagen, "What were the Murderers Thinking?" Der Spiegel 33 (August 12, 1996), reprinted in Unwilling Germans? p. 152.
12. Rudolph Augustein's interview with Goldhagen, "What were the Murderers Thinking?" Der Spiegel 33 (August 12, 1996), reprinted in Unwilling Germans? p. 152.
13. Ibid., p. 159.
14. For Lukacs see above, footnote 2; Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of His Evil (New York: Random House, 1998); Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999).
15. For Lukacs see above, footnote 2; Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of His Evil (New York: Random House, 1998); Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999).
16. Lukacs, pp. 26-27, also states erroneously that Binion's findings were "demolished" by the arguments of a German's doctor; see the footnote on p. 196.
17. Rosenbaum, pp.68, xxiii, 86, 207, 208, 269; 81; 142-143; 106.
18. Ibid. pp. 247, 426.
19. Janet Malcolm, "A Matter of Life and Death," The New York Review of Books, June 13, 1991, p.17.
20. Rosenbaum, pp. 281, 394, 134.
21. Newsweek, July 6, 1998, p. 70.
22. Kershaw, pp. 11, 13.
23. Ibid., p. 104.
24. Walter Reich, "The Devil's Miracle Man," New York Times Book Review, January 31, 1999, p. 8.
25. Fritz Redlich, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
26. Erica Goode, "Insane or Just Evil? A Psychiatrist Takes a New Look at Hitler," The New York Times, November 17, 1998, Science section.
27. Redlich, p. 338.
28. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes, Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History, 1930-39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); Rosenbaum, p. 297; Ralph Blumenthal, "Deciphering Hitler and the Nation that Nurtured Him," The New York Times, March 22, 1999, Arts section, p. 1.
29. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes, Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History, 1930-39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); Rosenbaum, p. 297; Ralph Blumenthal, "Deciphering Hitler and the Nation that Nurtured Him," The New York Times, March 22, 1999, Arts section, p. 1.
30. Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Lawrence Langer, Preempting the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
31. Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Lawrence Langer, Preempting the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
32. Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Lawrence Langer, Preempting the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
33. Rosenbaum, p. 315.
34. Ibid., p. 295.
35. Ibid., p. 176.
36. Kershaw, p.13.
37. Ethan Bronner, "Rethinking America's School of Hard Knocks," New York Times, May 30, 1999, Week in Review, p. 3.
38. David R. Beisel, "Europe's Killing Frenzy," The Journal of Psychohistory vol.25, no.2 (Fall, 1997), pp. 201-211.
39. Bernt Engelmann, In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich. Trans., Krishna Winston (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986), p. 277.
40. Redlich, p. 316.
41. Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust: A Very Particular Racism," in The Holocaust and History, p. 56.
42. Ibid., p. 61.
43. Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War On Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).