ABSTRACT
As the traumatic events of World War II recede into the past, a new generation of historians, many of whom were born or educated after the war, are trying to analyze that monumental conflict in a more dispassionate way than has heretofore been possible. Impressed by the economic success and democratic stability of the former Axis powers, and disillusioned with the cold war rhetoric of the present superpowers, these scholars have begun to reexamine what until recently have been considered axiomatic truths about that war.
