Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany /: the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann.
• Editors: Confino, Alon; Betts, Paul, 1963-; Schumann, Dirk
• Contents: Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death? Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 329 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.90943/0904; Death -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Cemeteries -- Germany -- History; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Collective memory -- Germany; History; Social Science; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Cemeteries; Collective memory; Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Manners and customs; Germany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Germany; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450517; 0857450514
• Related ISBNs: 9781845453978; 1845453972
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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