Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia

Published by University of Toronto Press 2021

Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War

Narratives from Europe and East Asia

Edited by: Randall Hansen , Achim Saupe , Andreas Wirsching and Daqing Yang

In the series German and European Studies

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487528225

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About this book

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second World War.

Author / Editor information

Hansen Randall :

Randall Hansen is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School.
Saupe Achim :

Achim Saupe is the director of the Leibniz Research Alliance for Historical Authenticity at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF).
Wirsching Andreas :

Andreas Wirsching is the director of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).
Yang Daqing :

Daqing Yang is an associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.

Reviews

Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University:

"A wide-ranging set of essays that not only reveals the historical threads woven into the dominant victimhood narratives of World War II in Europe and Asia but also provides astute analysis of the global fabric of collective memory in what the authors call our ‘post-heroic age.’ Fascinating."

Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

"This volume makes an important contribution to the study of memory culture by examining the shift from a celebration of heroism to the authentication of victimhood after the Second World War in Japan and Germany that has ironically made the victim into a new hero. Its suggestive case studies compare European with East Asian experiences through analyses of scholarly accounts as well as media representations of controversies about genocide, war crimes, and forced migration."

Peter Gatrell, Professor of History, University of Manchester:

"This thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of essays on post-1945 Europe and East Asia is very welcome. The rich case studies with their careful focus on specific domestic political contexts should ensure that this volume will be widely read. I anticipate that its publication will stimulate further comparative research into memory and constructions of victimhood in the modern world."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: War, Genocide, and Forced Migration Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching and Daqing Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1 Methodological and Theoretical Approaches
1 From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory Andreas Wirsching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Victim Identities and the Dynamics of “Authentication”: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment Michael Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
PART 2 Victims of Genocide and Massacres
3 Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity Ingo Loose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4 History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” Jürgen Zarusky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? Daqing Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
6 The “Death of Manila” in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration Nakano Satoshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
PART 3 War Victims
7 Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War James Orr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8 Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War Tatiana Voronina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
9 Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans Barbara Christophe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
PART 4 Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations
10 In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War Mathias Beer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
11 Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian- Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922–1954 Tobias Hof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
12 Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechen and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia Moritz Florin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
13 East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War– Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Other: 1 B&W illustration, 1 figure
Keywords: genocide; civilian casualties; Second World War; WWII; Holocaust; Shoah; Nazi Germany; Hitler; forced migration; authenticity; victimhood; Europe; East Asia; China; Japanmassacre; famine; postwar commemoration

eBook

Published: October 1, 2021
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