המחקר ההיסטורי על השואה: תולדות הדיסציפלינה במבט ממעוף הציפור

Tracing developments in Holocaust research, states that wartime research lacked perspective, while studies in the late 1940s-50s were generally linear descriptions of events. In the 1960s there was a marked increase in the study of Nazism and the Holocaust, due to the inclusion of Holocaust studies at various universities, the Eichmann trial, and the stage production of Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy". Much of the research in the 1970s-80s focused on the role of bystanders (including governments in the free world), the fate of refugees, Nazi anti-Jewish legislation, and the daily life of the persecuted Jews. In the 1990s documentation in former communist countries became available and there was a proliferation of studies on many different aspects of the Holocaust.