UID:
edocfu_9960860220202883
Format:
1 online resource (344 p.)
ISBN:
9780857450517
Series Statement:
Studies in German History ; 7
Content:
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
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Introduction DEATH AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY Paul Betts, Alon Confino, and Dirk Schumann --
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Part I BODIES --
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Chapter 1 HOW THE GERMANS LEARNED TO WAGE WAR On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars --
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Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF DEATH IN GERMANY AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR --
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Chapter 3 REBURYING AND REBUILDING Reflecting on Proper Burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour” --
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Part II DISPOSAL --
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Chapter 4 FANNING THE FLAMES Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany --
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Chapter 5 DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN EAST GERMANY, 1945–1990 --
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Chapter 6 DEATH AT THE MUNICH OLYMPICS --
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Chapter 7 WHEN COLD WARRIORS DIE Th e State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht --
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Part III SUBJECTIVITY --
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Chapter 8 A COMMON EXPERIENCE OF DEATH Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914–1923 --
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Chapter 9 LAUGHING ABOUT DEATH? “GERMAN HUMOR” IN THE TWO WORLD WARS --
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Chapter 10 DEATH, SPIRITUAL SOLACE, AND AFTERLIFE Between Nazism and Religion --
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Chapter 11 YIZKOR! COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD BY JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS IN POSTWAR GERMANY --
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Part IV RUINS --
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Chapter 12 THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany --
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Chapter 13 EUROPEAN MELANCHOLY AND THE INABILITY TO LISTEN Sebald, Politics, and Death --
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Chapter 14 A CEMETERY IN BERLIN --
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CONTRIBUTORS --
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9780857450517
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450517
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450517
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