Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical reality as well as the discourse on the singularity of the Holocaust in Germany. After an excursus on the Historikerstreit (Historians Dispute) in 1986, which resulted in a specific consensus on the interpretation of the Holocaust, the article describes the development of research since then, which led to a different result, namely to understand the Holocaust as a complex violent event with different groups of perpetrators and victims, which must be placed in the context of a European history of violence. The thesis of the singularity of the Holocaust not only no longer reflects this research development, but also blocks an appropriate culture of remembrance, which should be open and “multidirectional” (Michael Rothberg) without relativizing the specificity of the mass murder of European Jews.
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