ABSTRACT

The Holocaust has undergone a profound change in the last sixty years. Theissues that have been considered central to its history have also undergone profound shifts since the event’s immediate aftermath. But acknowledging these shifts in focus is not, of course, to say that the Holocaust as an event has changed. The Holocaust happened, and the numbers-of the dead; of the vast array of camps; the records kept by the Wehrmach, the SS, and the German Reichsbahn; the accounts of survivors-seem often to speak for themselves.