Abstract
Abstract The viewing of NBC's television series Holocaust by more than 20 million West Germans is one of the great pseudo-events of post-war German history. It has been treated as an apolitical phenomenon whereas its effects are political in the most powerful sense. Holocaust represents a major step in the process of West Germany's reunion with its Nazi past. It has been billed as the long sought-after Vergangenheits-bewältigung: West Germany has supposedly now confronted and overcome the hitherto tabooed Nazi legacy. That Vergangenheitsbewältigung has not occurred is not surprising. But the instrumentalization of Holocaust by the German political right wing must be examined.
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