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Historians Receiving Gifts and the Historiography of the Holocaust

October 1, 2002 | Dr. Robert Kaplan

As a considerable number of non-German historians of the Holocaust have received funding from German sources, the ques-tion arises as to whether such funding should be considered akin to gifts to judges from those they judge. A survey of Holocaust historians in Israel was conducted. None of the historians who received German funding expressed the belief that such aid had affected his or her work. Yet the clear differences in the discus-sion of the subject by those historians who had received Ger