European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of
the European Jews and its wider contexts. In recent years scholars have rediscovered Hannah
Arendt`s »boomerang thesis« - the »coming home« of European colonialism as genocide on European
soil - as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of
its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates
on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing memorialization
»decolonization« and attempts to come to terms with the past (»Vergangenheitsbewältigung«).
Includes Dorota Glowacka: »The Vanished World«: Cultural Genocide of Eastern European Jews
through the Lens of Settler Colonial Studies Carroll P. Kakel: »One should take America as a
model«: How Hitler Used American Westering as Legitimation for the Nazi Lebensraum Empire Jack
Pamer: Genocide Occupation Extinction: A Conceptual Constellation in the Thought of Raphael
Lemkin
