Holocaust, historiografia i identitat nacional a Alemanya (1945-1990)

Since 1945, memory of Holocaust has marked virtually every aspect of German society, including also the historians who have seen their scientific production marked by these events and the way they have treated. Therefore it is considered particularly interesting to analyze the relation between memory and historiography and the formation of German national identity with special attention to the period of division into two Germanys, so different and, at the same time, so similar in certain aspects. In both cases, the confrontation with the past has reached almost obsessive levels, even after reunification. If we accept the fact that the relevance of the past turned the history into an ideological minefield marked by political controversy, with very different degrees of distortion unconscious or deliberate, we must accept that historians have also played an important role in this process. History of Germany presents unusual challenges to scholars seeking to explain the complex relationship between politics and memory, challenges that have been marked by unconventional relationships with their national past. In this context, historiography has played a changing role that we analyze here.