Laudatio of Professor Gerhard Botz

This lecture stresses the importance of the work or Gerhard Botz an outstanding member of the Austrian generation of 1968 for his political commitment as a historian He has studied fascisms, resistance & deportation & is one of the very few historians that uses in his methodology statistics...

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Published in:Historia antropología y fuentes orales 2009-01 (42), p.33-36
Main Author: Vilanova, Mercedes
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Fascism
Historians
Military Personnel
Oral History
Stress
War
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Summary:This lecture stresses the importance of the work or Gerhard Botz an outstanding member of the Austrian generation of 1968 for his political commitment as a historian He has studied fascisms, resistance & deportation & is one of the very few historians that uses in his methodology statistics & oral sources. He has been a pioneer as an active member of the International Oral History Committee; with exceptional disciples like Michael Pollak. Currently he directs the MSDP project (Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project) with more than eight hundred interviews. The laudation finally stresses his extraordinary task of reconstructing & interpreting the biography of his father Anton Botz, who died fighting a group of partisans at the end of the Second World War, when he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht & he was just three years old. In this search for his roots Botz demonstrates his quality as a historian in one of the themes that he keeps deep in his heart, that is the guilt linked to the trauma of the war, even though he knows very well that he belongs to a generation that can not be suspected of having had a direct guilty participation. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1136-1700