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MIRRORS OF DESTRUCTION
n MIRRORs OF
DESTRUCTIOn
War, Genocide, and
Modern Identity n
OMER BARTOV
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2000
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bartov, Omer.
Mirrors of destruction : war, genocide, and modern identity / Omer Bartov.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–19–507723–7
1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Historiography. 2. Genocide. 3. Ethnicity.
4. World War, 1914–1918––Influence. 5. France––History––20th century––Historiography.
6. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)––Public opinion. 7. Public opinion––Germany.
8. Memory. I. Title
B37 2000
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Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
in memoriam
Yehudit Bartov,
1924–1998
Acknowledgments
This book was written over the span of several years. At times it
seemed that it would never pleted. Now that it is done, I feel
that there is much more that could have been said, read, and written
on this topic. Yet it does represent my thinking at this point in time
and will hopefully be of some use to others who are grappling with
the realities of our century as es to a close.
On the way I accumulated more debts than I could possibly ac-
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