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Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony
Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies that have arisen from the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt's uncritical acceptance of Adolf Eichmann's self-portrayal in Jerusalem; the conviction of Ivan Demjanuk (accused of being Treblinka death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible") on the basis of survivor testimony and its subsequent re...more
Paperback, 120 pages
Published
October 30th 2003
by University of Wisconsin Press
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Browning discusses the fallibility of eyewitness testimony and collective memory in his introduction to "Ordinary Men," but expands the conversation here. In particular, he examines Eichmann's post-arrest testimony, as well as survivor accounts of one minor factory labor camp. He raises important points about using eyewitness accounts like other sources--critically, in conjunction with corroborating evidence--not as an affront to the validity of survivors' memories, but as a way to c...more
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