‘A Hellish Nightmare’ : The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950
Year of publication
2021
Authors
Holmila, Antero
Abstract
This study examines how the Swedish press responded to and portrayed the Holocaust immediately after the war. The liberation of the camps, the role and guilt of ordinary Germans, the Nuremberg trials and the ongoing problem of Jewish DPs in Europe were the most important issues on the basis of which the Swedish press had shaped the early post-war view of the Holocaust. Moreover, the fate of the Jews under Nazi Germany formed an important element of such reporting. The author argues that, contrary to the dominant Anglo-American historiography, which holds that the first post-war decades were marked by silence surrounding the German genocide, the Swedish press wrote about the Holocaust often and in a more nuanced way than dominant scholarly knowledge would have it.
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Publication type
Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Compendium
Article type
Other article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A3 Book section, Chapters in research booksPublication channel information
Journal
Parent publication name
Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden : Archives, Testimonies and Reflections
Parent publication editors
Heuman, Johannes; Rudberg, Pontus
Publisher
Pages
163-187
ISBN
Publication forum
Publication forum level
3
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
No
Self-archived
Yes
Other information
Fields of science
History and archaeology
Keywords
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Publication country
Switzerland
Internationality of the publisher
International
Language
English
International co-publication
No
Co-publication with a company
No
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-55532-0_7
The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection
Yes