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JournalISSN: 1750-4902

Holocaust Studies 

Taylor & Francis
About: Holocaust Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): The Holocaust & Judaism. It has an ISSN identifier of 1750-4902. Over the lifetime, 413 publications have been published receiving 2021 citations.
Topics: The Holocaust, Judaism, Nazism, Genocide, Persecution


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TL;DR: The role of the notion of Lebensraum in shaping the biopolitical and genocidal machinery implemented by Hitlerism and its followers is explored in this paper, where the authors claim that the Third Reich incorporated LebENSRAUM by merging its duplicitous meaning, as living/vital space and as life-world.
Abstract: This article focuses on the pivotal role the notion of Lebensraum played within the Nazi spatial mindscape. Tracing the complex and contradictory genealogies of Lebensraum, we note how geographers’ engagement with Geopolitik has only made modest reference to the role Lebensraum played in shaping the biopolitical and genocidal machinery implemented by Hitlerism and its followers. Moreover, most of this literature highlights a clear discontinuity between the Lebensraum concept formulated by German academic geographers and the Nazis respectively. Rather than emphasizing the divide between German Geopolitik and Nazi biopolitics, we claim that the Third Reich incorporated Lebensraum by merging its duplicitous meaning, as living/vital space and as life-world. Equality important were both Nazi ‘functionalist’ understandings of Lebensraum as well as its ontological merging of Lebens and Raum in which the racialised German nation is conceived as a spatial organism whose expansion is the essential expressio...

35 citations

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TL;DR: This paper provided a historical overview of the position of the Holocaust within the National Curriculum since 1991, through close analysis of the five iterations of the curriculum, it traces changes and continuities in how teaching and learning about the Holocaust has been stipulated by successive governments.
Abstract: This article provides a historical overview of the position of the Holocaust within the National Curriculum since 1991. Through close analysis of the five iterations of the curriculum, it traces changes and continuities in how teaching and learning about the Holocaust has been stipulated by successive governments. By contextualizing these with reference to shifts in England’s Holocaust culture, it is shown that the National Curriculum has acted as a fulcrum for the evolution of Holocaust consciousness. However, it is also argued that many of the faults and failures, challenges and shortcomings within the National Curriculum are symbiotic and closely entwined with wider issues in Britain’s Holocaust culture.

32 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the various types of engagements young people are having around Holocaust remembrance on Instagram, specifically using the hashtag #Auschwitz. Although this dialogue is different from ours,
Abstract: The paper critically discusses the various types of engagements young people are having around Holocaust remembrance on Instagram, specifically using the hashtag #Auschwitz. Although this dialogue ...

26 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the sexual abuse of Jewish women by German men during the Holocaust and reject the myth that laws forbidding Rassenschande would prevent the rape of Jewish Women and argue that genocidal conditions provided fertile soil for such abuses.
Abstract: This article focuses on the sexual abuse of Jewish women by German men during the Holocaust. It rejects the myth that laws forbidding Rassenschande would prevent the rape of Jewish women and argues that genocidal conditions provided fertile soil for such abuses. It examines some of the reasons that scholars have shied away from discussing this issue.

25 citations

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TL;DR: Visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is becoming increasingly popular in the age of the Internet, social media and digitalization as mentioned in this paper, and their motivations for taking photographs at the site also vary.
Abstract: Visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is becoming increasingly popular in the age of the Internet, social media and digitalization. People visit the Auschwitz Museum for a number of reasons, and their motivations for taking photographs at the site also vary. Several of the primary reasons to photograph Auschwitz given by the sixteen participants in this study will be explored in this paper. The ethical dilemma surrounding the taking of ‘selfies’ will also be considered.

24 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
20234
202233
202152
202027
201931
201829