The Holocaust in the British imagination: the official mind and beyond, 1945 to the present
The Holocaust in the British imagination: the official mind and beyond, 1945 to the present
This article traces how the Holocaust has been responded to at a political level in Britain from 1945 to the present. It includes key moments such as the liberation of the camps in 1945, the Eichmann Trial in 1961, compensation schemes from the mid-1960s, and more recent forms of pedagogic and memorialization issues since the 1990s, ending with the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission (2014 onwards). While the focus is on the official sphere, attention is given throughout to wider cultural and social trends and contexts for the whole period. It emphasizes the contrasting meanings and politics associated with British confrontations with the Holocaust in the postwar era, using for the more recent period especially the 2016 UCL survey What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust?
liberation of Belsen, Eichmann Trial, compensation, memorialization, Holocaust education, Holocaust Commission
364-384
Kushner, Tony
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Kushner, Tony
958c42e3-4290-4cc4-9d7e-85c1cdff143b
Kushner, Tony
(2017)
The Holocaust in the British imagination: the official mind and beyond, 1945 to the present.
Holocaust Studies, 23 (3), .
(doi:10.1080/17504902.2017.1296084).
Abstract
This article traces how the Holocaust has been responded to at a political level in Britain from 1945 to the present. It includes key moments such as the liberation of the camps in 1945, the Eichmann Trial in 1961, compensation schemes from the mid-1960s, and more recent forms of pedagogic and memorialization issues since the 1990s, ending with the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission (2014 onwards). While the focus is on the official sphere, attention is given throughout to wider cultural and social trends and contexts for the whole period. It emphasizes the contrasting meanings and politics associated with British confrontations with the Holocaust in the postwar era, using for the more recent period especially the 2016 UCL survey What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust?
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 January 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 May 2017
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Special Issue: Holocaust education
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liberation of Belsen, Eichmann Trial, compensation, memorialization, Holocaust education, Holocaust Commission
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ISSN: 1750-4902
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