Germans as victims : remembering the past in contemporary Germany /: remembering the past in contemporary Germany. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• 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; 1137138726
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