Holocaust Fictions and the Transformation of Historical Memory

The current state of historical memory of the Holocaust is characterized by both heightened interest in the event and trivialization of the past. An evolving historical memory is reflected, and finds some of its impetus in the literary and other forms of popular culture. Fiction which has an air of seeming historicity contains the potential for confusion between its own imitation of reality and the actual historical record. Those who seek to exploit the current fascination with Nazism for their own ends, through blatant disregard for historical truth, gain from this confusion. The trend in popular Holocaust fiction to appeal to the cravings of the tabloid imagination points to a progressive erosion of historical memory of the Nazi crimes against the Jews

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