Hey again everybody. I know I just dropped a big essay on all of you adapted from my final research paper in grad school, and many of you might still be working through it, but I wanted to give everyone another little bonus for all of your patience waiting for the proper big historical episodes of History Impossible. It’s been a while since I’ve done an episode based purely on historiographical analysis, but the paper/essay I wrote a couple of years ago that covers the trajectory of Holocaust scholarship in the late 20th and early 21st centuries seemed thematically appropriate with what I’ve been doing lately.<br /><br />I will spare you the TL;DR on this one since it’s not a very long episode, but I think it’s important to map this out so no one is mistaken in thinking that Holocaust scholarship is purely one-dimensional, moralistic, and remaining static since 1945. It’s a constantly-changing field, with historians still trying to puzzle out certain aspects of one of modern history’s most unthinkable crimes. It only scratches the surface of the literature that exists out there, but it broadly reflects the thematic shifts that have occurred over the last thirty five years of study. We seem to be entering a new phase of that scholarship, so consider this a (hopefully) handy primer.<br /><br />...<br /><br />History Impossible has been made possible by the following generous supporters on Patreon, Substack, and PayPal. Please consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/historyimpossible" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">donating today</a> if you want to show some love for what I do and make and what to help keep the show and all my written content going:<br /><br />David Adamcik<br />Monica Almirall<br />David Alsbach<br />Gregg Anderson<br />approso1999<br />Rajan Athul<br />Robert Babeon<br />Michael Beach<br />Benjamin<br />Greg Bosai<br />Johannes Breitsameter<br />Carol ABC<br />Carol Chappelle<br />Charles C<br />Chomo the Clown<br />Curtis Christiansen<br />Jason Coleman<br />Clayton Connell<br />Click<br />Cliffydeuce<br />CR<br />Craig Crawford<br />B.Cyr<br />daddygorgon<br />Danny<br />Lynda Davis<br />Paul DeCoster<br />Regina Dick-Endrizzi<br />Neil Dickens<br />Nathan Diehl<br />Bob Downing<br />Dramicas<br />Martin E.<br />Eastone<br />Gavin Edwards<br />Snow Farmer<br />Howie Feltersnatch<br />Matt Gassner<br />Pierre Ghazarian<br />Josh Goedert<br />Sam Graham<br />Jayson Griesmeyer<br />Nathan Grote<br />Baronness Gunnora<br />Matt Gassner<br />Benjamin Hamilton<br />Peter Hauck<br />Jack Henneman<br />Eric Hodges<br />Mike Jarulic<br />Joe6245<br />Tomás Jonsson<br />Lionel Joseph<br />Thomas Justesen<br />Mike Kalnins<br />Robbie Kaplan<br />Bryn Kaufman<br />Leah Kodner<br />Constance Loucks<br />Maddy<br />Mounty of Madness<br />Jose Martinez<br />Mike Mayleben<br />S.M. McAvoy<br />Judy McCoid<br />Mike<br />Kyle Mohney<br />Kostas Moros<br />Ryan Mortenson<br />John Muller<br />Cameron Needham<br />Sean P<br />Skip Pacheco<br />David Page<br />Molly Pan<br />Philip Pomerantz<br />Sr. Powell<br />Brian Pritzl<br />AnaR737<br />PJ Rader<br />Gleb Radutsky<br />Aleksandr Rakitin<br />Reptilycus<br />Matthew M. Rice<br />Phillip Rice<br />Cheryl Robertson<br />Terry Rosen<br />Andrew S.<br />Dan S.<br />Jon Andre Saether<br />Jake Scalia<br />Emily Schmidt<br />Julian Schmidt<br />Scryptar<br />Andrew Seeber<br />Shiran<br />Joshua Simpson<br />Cameron Smith<br />Jerry Spangler<br />timetosuccedd1995<br />Thomas Squeo<br />Athal Krishna Sundarrajan<br />Jared Cole Temple<br />Ann Tout<br />Mike US<br />Ward Van Roy<br />Pierre Vorupuni<br />Robert VS<br />Nate Wade<br />weaverap<br />Jonny Wilkie<br />Christian Wilson<br />Janora Winsor<br />F. You<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/history-impossible--5634566/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/history-impossible--5634566/support</a>.