Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taner Akçam
Keyword(s):  
Central Place ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Genocide Studies ◽  
The Holocaust

This chapter contends that there are two reasons why the concept of assimilation was detached from the study of genocide. First, Armenian Genocide studies have suffered from the general weaknesses of the emerging field. Occupying the central place in these debates as a sine qua non, the Holocaust became the yardstick against which an event might or might not measure up as a genocide. As with other instances of mass violence, the fear that the events of 1915 would not be considered genocide if they did not resemble the Holocaust precluded serious analysis along the lines of dynamic social processes. Second, the understanding of assimilation as a process of the Armenian Genocide has been hampered by the character of available sources, mainly German and American consular reports, as well as missionary and survivor accounts.

scholarly journals Zapomniane, przemilczane, przeoczone. Inne zagłady i ich literackie reprezentacje w ujęciu Arkadiusza Morawca

2020 ◽  
pp. 409-425
Author(s):  
Tatiana Czerska
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Genocide Studies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
State Of Research

The article presents findings contained in the work by Arkadiusz Morawiec entitled Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa. Rekonesans [Polish literature faced with genocide. Reconnaissance]. The scholar from Łódź calls into question the hitherto established hierarchy of genocides. Extensive comparative research into literary representations of particular wartime massacres is what constitutes the thematic pivot of the said treatise, which joins in the discussion scope outlined by genocide studies. Subsequent chapters of the presented book are devoted to literary reverberations of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turks, the Nazi-Germany extermination of persons with physical and mental retardation as well as Sinti and Roma, the Srebrenica massacres carried out by Serbs. The remaining chapters deal with the Holocaust literature and, according to the author’s intentions, an attempt to enrich the state of research, and sometimes – to amend some of their findings.

scholarly journals PARANOIA AND PARTISANSHIP: GENOCIDE STUDIES, HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND THE ‘APOCALYPTIC CONJUNCTURE’

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. DIRK MOSES
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Genocide Studies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Anti Jewish

ABSTRACTRecent literature on the Holocaust and (other) genocides reveals that on the whole differences in approach persist. For many historians, as for the public, the Holocaust is the prototypical genocide, such that mass violence must resemble the Holocaust to constitute genocide. Whereas ‘normal’ ethnic/national conflict is commonly believed to involve ‘real’ issues like land, resources, and political power, no such conflict is discernible in the Holocaust of European Jewry, whose victims were passive and agentless objects of the ‘hallucinatory’ ideology of the perpetrators. But is this distinction sustainable on closer inspection? This review suggests that genocide is mistakenly identified as a massive hate crime based entirely on ‘race’. In fact, it has a political logic: irrational or at least exaggerated fears about subversion and national or ‘ethnic’ security. Prejudices do not cause violence: they are mobilized in conditions of emergency. Recent research tends in this direction by emphasizing paranoia rather than racism in the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazis but does not transcend the customary distinction between the ‘delusional’ grounds for the former and ‘real’ ethnic conflict. This separation of categories feeds into the anxieties in some contributors to this literature about potential genocides in the present by forecasting apocalyptic scenarios unless drastic military action is taken against specified enemies. Scholarship is better served by deflating rather than inflating such anxieties.

scholarly journals Hannah Arendt's Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gerwarth ◽  
Stephan Malinowski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Historians on both sides of the Atlantic are currently engaged in a controversy about the allegedly genocidal nature of western colonialism and its connections with the mass violence unleashed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The debate touches upon some of the most “sensitive” issues of twentieth-century history: the violent “dark side” of modern western civilization, the impact of colonial massacres on the European societies that generated this violence and, perhaps most controversially, the origins and uniqueness of the Holocaust.

scholarly journals Genocide and Holocaust Education at Secondary Schools in Armenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1 (8)) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Siranush Chubaryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
National Program ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
The Holocaust

The article refers to the organization of Genocide and Holocaust Education at secondary schools in Armenia. The survey and investigation indicate the key direction of the reforms in the national program of education. Special attention is paid to reforms in the fields of social sciences, as well as human rights (including the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust) at the secondary schools in Armenia which significantly contribute to the establishment of civil society in our country.

Air Wars, Memory Wars

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Impact

The German preoccupation with the Nazi past, with issues of guilt, responsibility, and victimization “… doesn't end. Never will it end,” to quote the resigned note on which Günter Grass concluded his latest novel, Crabwalk. It manifests itself in ever new forms, as different parts of the past, which may or may not have been repressed, come to the fore and are painfully reconstructed, tentatively probed, and reluctantly and often only partially accepted. Each new perspective on the past reorders, sometimes even shatters, the previous mosaic. Recall the impact of the film Holocaust or of the Wehrmacht exhibition. A similar phenomenon is now occurring—or so some hope and others fear. Since 2002 German suffering, rather than German guilt, has become the principal theme in discourses about the past. The firebombing of Hamburg and Dresden, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, “moral bombing,” mass rape, and ethnic cleansing dominate historical and literary production and public debate as the Eastern Front, war crimes, and the pervasive knowledge of the Holocaust did in the mid- and late-1990s, and the uniqueness of the Holocaust and its central place within the Third Reich did a decade before that.

Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.

1994 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Michael R. Marrus ◽  
Robert Melson ◽  
Leo Kuper
Keyword(s):  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
The Holocaust

scholarly journals Cyber Extremism: Extremist Ideologies Targeting the US Military Online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
American People ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Us ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The rapid evolution and dissemination of online disinformation has combined with a lack of education among the general populace about the white power movement as a whole. The situation enables these groups to radicalize individuals quietly, while leaders and policymakers remain unaware. Americans are generally even less educated about the ideology and social processes that led to the Holocaust. One-third of Americans believe that significantly less than 6 million Jews were murdered, and up to 15 percent of millennials think that Nazi symbols should be allowed to be displayed. This lack of knowledge about the history and the new forms these ideologies are taking online creates a unique challenge in combating extremism in the ranks of the U.S. military. If it wants to maintain the trust of the American people, the U.S. military must do more to teach leaders to recognize the threat of extremism both online and in the ranks as well as empower commanders to take action.

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