Memory as Burden and Liberation: Germans and their Nazi Past (1945-2010) (Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics)

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Published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 10.12.2014., 2014

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Series: Book 4 of 28 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics

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419 Seiten Neuwertiges Exemplar. - Table of Contents -- Introduction 7 -- Chapter 1. Mnemosyne - Mother of the Muses 13 -- 1. Dialectics of memory and forgetting 15 -- 2. History versus memory 23 -- 3. Memory and identity 32 -- 4. History and politics 39 -- 5. A historian between media and politics 48 -- Chapter 2. Between the end and the beginning 69 -- 1. Legacy of the two World Wars 69 -- 2. Coming to terms with the past 77 -- 3. Guilt and shame 88 -- Collective guilt: truth and myths 93 -- Helplessness of an intellectual 99 -- 4. Perpetrators and victims 104 -- 5. In search of defensive strategies 107 -- Innocent criminals 110 -- Honest murderers 112 -- Hitler and his 'clique' 117 -- 'The disciplined', 'the patriots', 'the idealists' 119 -- The 'big' and the 'little' person in a uniform 121 -- Social 'normality' 130 -- 6. Crime and punishment 133 -- Denazification - a failed experiment? 135 -- Social reaction 142 -- Chapter 3. Divided nation, divided memory 147 -- 1. The winners of history: the German Democratic Republic -- in the shadow of anti-fascism : 149 -- 2. Burdened with history: the Federal Republic of Germany between -- myth and memory 167 -- Community of silence? 170 -- The return of history 192 -- Patriotism after Auschwitz 204 -- Identity of a 'normal' nation 212 Chapter 4. The Berlin Republic: a marathon of memory 221 -- 1. German turning points: 1945 and 1990 221 -- 2. Debates that changed Germany 228 -- The Wehrmacht: a defence community? 230 -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: an ordinary German as a Hitler's assistant? 241 -- Martin Walser: Holocaust as a "moral bludgeon" 249 -- Mourning as the conscience of history? 257 -- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - a symbol of mourning -- or disgrace? 261 -- How much past in the future? 270 -- Chapter 5. Days of Remembrance 275 -- 1. Memory as a ritual 275 -- 2. 8 May: dialectics of defeat and liberation 283 -- The German Federal Republic: the day of liberation 287 -- The Federal Republic of Germany: day of mourning or celebration? 291 -- In the reunited Germany 303 -- 3. The Night of Broken Glass - The Holocaust as an identity dilemma 314 -- 4. The war against Poland in German oblivion 332 -- In the clutches of prejudice and propaganda 333 -- On the way to the dialogue of memory 342 -- Bibliography 353 -- Zusammenfassung 401 -- Index 409 ISBN 9783631640517 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 21,3 x 15,5 x 3,0 cm, Gebundene Ausgabe.…

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Memory as Burden and Liberation: Germans and their Nazi Past (1945-2010) (Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics)
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 10.12.2014.
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Book 4 of 28: Studies in History, Memory and Politics
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