as a keystone in its political and educational agenda have moreover led to a veritable “Europeanization”, as it was repeatedly termed throughout the conference, of Holocaust research.
International and transnational studies, such as those pioneered by Timothy Snyder, not to mention local and diffuse studies on hitherto neglected areas and themes of the Holocaust as are accumulating in various European countries, all suggest a growing momentum behind Holocaust research, and its increasingly international, even global, visibility and relevance.
These observations were augmented by the introductory words of David Gill, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. The very presence of the German consul general, including the support for the conference by the German embassy and the German Academic Exchange Service, underscored his assessment that the Holocaust is today recognized as “a part of the history of Germany and of civilization,” as well as his reference to the former German Federal President Joachim Gauck that “there is no German