Germans as victims : remembering the past in contemporary Germany /: remembering the past in contemporary Germany. (2006)
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- Book
- Title:
- Germans as victims : remembering the past in contemporary Germany /: remembering the past in contemporary Germany. (2006)
- Main Title:
- Germans as victims : remembering the past in contemporary Germany
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Bill Niven.
- Other Names:
- Niven, William John, 1956-
- Contents:
- Introduction : German victimhood at the turn of the millennium / Bill Niven -- The politics of the past in the 1950s : rhetorics and victimization in East and West Germany ; Victims in uniform : West German combat movies from the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller -- Taboo or tradition? The 'Germans as victims' theme in West Germany until the early 1990s / Ruth Wittlinger -- The continually suffering nation? Cinematic representations of German victimhood / Paul Cooke -- The birth of the collective from the spirit of empathy : from the "historians' dispute" to German suffering / Helmut Schmitz -- The GDR and memory of the bombing of Dresden / Bill Niven -- Victims of the Berlin Wall / Pertti Ahonen -- The victims of totalitarianism and the centrality of Nazi genocide : continuity and change in German commemorative politics / Andrew H. Beattie -- Representations of German wartime suffering in recent fiction / Stuart Taberner -- Air war legacies : from Dresden to Baghdad / Andreas Huyssen -- From the margins to the centre? The discourse on expellees and victimhood in Germany / Karoline von Oppen and Stefan Wolff -- On taboos, traumas and other myths : why the debate about German victims of the Second World War is not a historians' controversy / Stefan Berger.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Subjects:
- 943.087072
Second World War
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Historiography
Collective memory -- Germany
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
History -- Psychological aspects
National characteristics, German
Population transfers -- Germans
Collective memory -- Germany (East)
Veterans -- Germany -- History -- 20th century - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137138729
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