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Eyal Sivan

The film discusses the politics of remembrance, a term introduced by the historian Raul Hilberg, as applied to the Jewish state and its politics.

Raul Hilberg

Hilberg was amazed by this highly educated, German-Jewish emigrant passing over the genocide of European Jews in order to expound on Napoleon and the occupation of Spain.

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Since most of the early functionalist historians were West German, it was often enough for intentionalist historians, especially for those outside Germany, to note that men such as Broszat and Hans Mommsen had spent their adolescence in the Hitler Youth and then to say that their work was an apologia for National Socialism.

Williston, Vermont

Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born historian and leading scholar on the Holocaust

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