Contemporary Baltic history and German Ostforschung , 1918–1945. Concepts, images and notions

In National his contribution Socialism in to 1969, the Frantisek German Graus discussion noted on that Historians historians may and National Socialism in 1969, Fr ntisek Graus noted that historians may have fallen short of the ideal even though they followed the accepted rules of historical research (Graus 94-95). The history of historiography must not restrict itself, therefore, to accounts of the steady accumulation of historical knowledge: it has to pay attention to the social and political context of historians' work. In recent years there have been lively debates amongst German historians, and among the public in general, on the involvement of German historians in Nazi Germany's policy towards the East-Central and Eastern European nations.1 The discussions centre mainly on two points. The first is the political involvement of historians who played an important role in post-war West-German historiography (Aly, 1997 and 1999). The second is the question of modernization: Ostforschung, and in a wider context since the 1920s the concept of Volksgeschichte (ethnic history), appear to be to some extent precursors of modern West-German social history, which seems to run counter to their exponents' reactionary political intentions (Oberkrome, Klesmann). It would be reasonable to inquire whether discussion of these two points seeks to explain the contribution of the historians concerned to the genesis of Hitler's eastern policy, or if such discussions aim primarily at the deconstruction or legitimization of authorities for reasons that may be found within the discipline. This article, however, tries to avoid such present-day problems and concentrates on the role of German Ostforschung within the scholarly discipline of history and on the reconstruction of the place of Baltic history within Ostforschung itself

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