Tlo i koreni nacizma: dva pristupa

Abstract

The paper discusses two different approaches to Nazism and the Holocaust. The first approach is different versions of the Sonderweg thesis arguing that the ex- planation of the “German catastrophe” should be sought in the particular features of German history. The second approach rests on searching for external, exogenous fac- tors that played a formative role in the emergence of National Socialism. The exam- ples illustrating these two approaches are recently published books by Aleksandar Molnar and Michael Kellogg, reviewed in detail in the paper. Starting from an inter- pretation of these books, the author argues that the limitations of both approaches re- sult from the complexity of a historical experience that resists rationalization