Chapter 16 The Rise and Fall of Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust

This chapter discusses the historiography of the Holocaust, it explains how it consists of 4 different periods in its study and writing. It's not until the 1980's that Holocaust studies really expanded into the field of economic studies it is today. The author of this article lists the four sections as post-war silence, historical sobriety,  flight into theory, and flight into exceptionality.