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Identifier	Thesis 1906
Author	Avis, Pamela S. (Pamela Cordell), 1938-
Title	Bergen-Belsen reconsidered
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This paper invites a reconsideration of the circumstances surrounding the surrender of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, in April 1945. New evidence is introduced that challenges accepted interpretations and calls for a reassessment, in particular, of the motives and intentions of Reichsfhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler during the last months of the Second World War. Himmler claimed to have surrendered Bergen-Belsen and its 60,000 prisoners to the British as a humanitarian act, and as there is no evidence that refutes his claim the historiography of the Holocaust reflects the lie. The new evidence indicates that, instead, a powerful initiative came from within the Wehrmacht which forced Himmler into a defensive position where he had either to authorize a peaceful turnover or risk an armed confrontation between SS and Wehrmacht troops. The importance of this disclosure is that Himmler's distortion of the truth at Bergen-Belsen is a significant part of the SS legend that inspires Holocaust deniers. As the complex circumstances of this study unfold on the following pages I hope the process of discovery reveals the exhilaration of historical reconstruction. The method used is that of probing the interplay between situation and motivation, of tracing linkages between events, and of exploring the intent of individual perpetrators, which in parallel with the introduction of new evidence, responds to the current emphasis in Holocaust historiography on focused, in-depth research that explores ideological, institutional and social milieu as indivisible.
Subject	Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Biskupski, Mieczysław B
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734375
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