ISBN:
1403990425
,
1403990433
,
9781403990426
,
9781403990433
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 292 S.
,
Kt.
,
22 cm
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
943.087072
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Historiography
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Collective memory
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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History Psychological aspects
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National characteristics, German
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Population transfers Germans
;
Collective memory
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Veterans History 20th century
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Vergangenheitspolitik
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Deutschland
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Nationalsozialismus
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NS
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Genozid
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Völkermord
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Bombenkrieg
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Trauma
;
Erinnerung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Victims Germany
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Germany History
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1933-1945
;
Historiography
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Deutschland
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Opfer
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Deutschland
;
Drittes Reich
;
Rezeption
;
Luftkrieg
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-2-031
URL:
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/10/12846
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21344
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Contributor biographical information
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Publisher description
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