UID:
almahu_9949986096702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (422 p.)
ISBN:
9783653996784
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3653996783
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9783653996791
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3653996791
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9783653024432
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3653024439
Serie:
Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik, Band 10
Inhalt:
This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which leads through a thick of actors, issues, institutions, events and phenomena, is a reflection upon the reasons for which German reckoning with the past turned out to be a process full of contradictions; a bumpy road rippled with political, intellectual and moral mines. This intention is accompanied by the question about the specif
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Mnemosyne - Mother of the Muses; 1. Dialectics of memory and forgetting; 2. History versus memory; 3. Memory and identity; 4. History and politics; 5. A historian between media and politics; Chapter 2. Between the end and the beginning; 1. Legacy of the two World Wars; 2. Coming to terms with the past; 3. Guilt and shame; Collective guilt: truth and myths; Helplessness of an intellectual; 4. Perpetrators and victims; 5. In search of defensive strategies; Innocent criminals; Honest murderers; Hitler and his 'clique'
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'The disciplined', 'the patriots', 'the idealists'The 'big' and the 'little' person in a uniform; Social 'normality'; 6. Crime and punishment; Denazification - a failed experiment; Social reaction; Chapter 3. Divided nation, divided memory; 1. The winners of history: the German Democratic Republic in the shadow of anti-fascism; 2. Burdened with history: the Federal Republic of Germany between myth and memory; Community of silence?; The return of history; Patriotism after Auschwitz; Identity of a 'normal' nation; Chapter 4. The Berlin Republic: a marathon of memory
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1. German turning points: 1945 and 19902. Debates that changed Germany; The Wehrmacht: a defence community?; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: an ordinary German as a Hitler's assistant?; Martin Walser: Holocaust as a "moral bludgeon"; Mourning as the conscience of history?; Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - a symbol of mourning or disgrace?; How much past in the future?; Chapter 5. Days of Remembrance; 1. Memory as a ritual; 2. 8 May: dialectics of defeat and liberation; The German Federal Republic: the day of liberation; The Federal Republic of Germany: day of mourning or celebration?
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In the reunited Germany3. The Night of Broken Glass - The Holocaust as an identity dilemma; 4. The war against Poland in German oblivion; In the clutches of prejudice and propaganda; On the way to the dialogue of memory; Bibliography; Zusammenfassung; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783631640517
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 363164051X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781322498140
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1322498148
Sprache:
Deutsch
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-02443-2
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