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Howards End, E.M. Forster’s classic Edwardian novel, may seem an unlikely starting point for a commentary on post-war Britain and its confrontation with the Holocaust. But as Oliver Stallybrass noted,
‘Only connect...’... is the epigraph of a novel much concerned with the relationships, and the possibility of reconciliation, between certain pairs of opposite s : the prose and the passion, the seen and the unseen, the practical mind and the intellectual, the outer life and the inner.1
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For polemics and counter-polemics, see William Rubinstein, The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (London, 1997); Theodore Hamerow, Why We Watched: Europe, America and the Holocaust (New York, 2008). For an overview of the shape of such debates, see Tony Kushner, ‘Britain, America and the Holocaust: Past, Present and Future Historiographies’, Holocaust Studies, 18(2-3) (Summ er /Autumn 2012), 35–48.
Imperial War Museum oral history interview, 16 July 2001, Catalogue no. 22065. More generally for the Imperial War Museum’s pioneer role in carrying out Holocaust-related interviews, see Tony Kushner, ‘Oral History at the Extremes of Human Experience: Holocaust Testimony in a Museum Setting’, Oral History, 29(2) (2001), 83–94.
Andy Pearce, ‘The Development of Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain, 1979–2001’, Holocaust Studies, 14(2) (2008), 71–94.
See Tony Kushner, ‘Holocaust Testimony, Ethics and the Problem of Representation’, Poetics Today, 27(2) (2006), 275–296.
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Kushner, T. (2013). Loose Connections? Britain and the ‘Final Solution’. In: Sharples, C., Jensen, O. (eds) Britain and the Holocaust. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350770_4
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