Holocaust Historian Omer Bartov: How Germany Enabled the Genocide in Gaza – Nullpunkt, Ep. 5

In dieser Folge von Nullpunkt redet der bekannte Historiker und Völkermordforscher Omer Bartov mit Hanno Hauenstein über Israels Angriff auf Gaza, die Instrumentalisierung der Erinnerung an den Holocaust und wie Deutschland seine historische Verantwortung verdreht. Bartov, einer der weltweit führenden Experten zum Holocaust, meint, dass Deutschland sich durch Waffenlieferungen und politische Unterstützung mitschuldig am Völkermord in Gaza gemacht hat.

In this episode of Nullpunkt, renowned historian and genocide scholar Omer Bartov joins Hanno Hauenstein to discuss Israel’s assault on Gaza, the weaponization of Holocaust memory, and Germany’s distortion of historical responsibility. Bartov, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Holocaust, argues that by supplying weapons and political cover, Germany has made itself complicit in the Gaza genocide.

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0:00 – Introduction 
1:00 – Omer Bartov on his time in Berlin 
3:37 – Is there a scholarly consensus on genocide? 
5:33 – Why the hesitation to name genocide? 
7:20 – Could the assessment have come earlier? 
10:28 – What established the pattern of genocide? 
14:10 – How Gaza ties into German memory culture 
18:08 – How Holocaust memory has been weaponized 
21:11 – How could a reckoning look like? 
22:33 – Germany’s complicity in the genocide 
24:50 – How Bartov sees himself vis-a-vis Israeli society 
26:50 – On denial – in Israel and beyond 
29:10 – On the fragile ceasefire and the Trump plan 
31:00 – Has the genocide assessment helped move toward a ceasefire?