Acknowledgments	8
	Introduction: The Past and Present of Militarized Genocide	14
	Contents	10
	I Images of War and the Emergence of Industrial Killing	24
	1 Man and the Mass: Reality and the Heroic Image in War	26
	2 The European Imagination in the Age of Total War	44
	II The Holocaust: Histories, Memories, Stories	62
	3 Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism	64
	I. Antisemitism	65
	II. The Holocaust	67
	III. National Socialism	71
	IV. Interpretations	75
	V. Modernity	78
	4 Historians on the Eastern Front: Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy	82
	5 An Idiot's Tale: Memories and Histories of the Holocaust	100
	I. The Facts of the Matter	101
	II. As a Matter of Fact	106
	III. Competing Memories	112
	IV. Epilogue: Satan's Playground	122
	6 Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History, and Truth	126
	I. The Surfeit of Memory and the Uses of Forgetting	128
	II. The Historikerstreit and the Importance of Memory	130
	III. Israel, Commemoration, and the Normalization of Jewish Existence	134
	IV. Representation and its Discontents	136
	V. Denial, Relativism, Truth: The Fruits of Morbid Curiosity	141
	III The Aesthetics of Murder: Visual Representations of Evil	148
	7 War, Memory, and Repression: Alexander Kluge and the Politics of Representation in Postwar Germany	150
	8 Chambers of Horror: The Reordering of Murders Past	164
	I. Clean Empty Uniforms: War Exhibited	164
	II. Shooting War: The Price of Glory	168
	III. On Heroes and Villains: The Holocaust in Hollywood	177
	IV. Plastic Holocausts: Making It Better	186
	Notes	198
	Index	248
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