Format:
vi, 402 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First printing
ISBN:
9780674275225
Content:
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from postwar Germany’s pacifist tradition open the door to renewed militarism? In short, when Germans said “never again,” did they mean “never again Auschwitz” or “never again war”? Looking beyond solemn statements and well-meant monuments, Andrew I. Port examines how the Nazi past shaped German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda – and further, how these foreign atrocities recast Germans’ understanding of their own horrific history. In the late 1970s, the reign of the Khmer Rouge received relatively little attention from a firmly antiwar public that was just “discovering” the Holocaust. By the 1990s, the genocide of the Jews was squarely at the center of German identity, a tectonic shift that inspired greater involvement in Bosnia and, to a lesser extent, Rwanda. Germany’s increased willingness to use force in defense of others reflected the enthusiastic embrace of human rights by public officials and ordinary citizens. At the same time, conservatives welcomed the opportunity for a more active international role involving military might – to the chagrin of pacifists and progressives at home. Making the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear, this book is a story with deep resonance for any country confronting a dark past.
Note:
Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
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Prologue -- Introduction : the consummate country of contrition -- Cold War genocide : carnage in Cambodia -- Pol Pot is like Hitler -- Asia's Auschwitz -- Why don't we act? -- No one can say they didn’t know -- Even angels live perilously -- Genocide after German unification : crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Rwanda -- It Is genocide and must be designated as such -- Our revulsion against military force is understandable -- Humanity in action -- Germany cannot play the role of global gendarme -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Conclusion : acting after Auschwitz -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Port, Andrew I., 1967 - Never again Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780674293380
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Port, Andrew I., 1967 - Never Again Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780674293380
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Judenvernichtung
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Menschenrechtspolitik
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Bewaffneter Konflikt
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Militärische Intervention
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Öffentliche Meinung
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Geschichte
Author information:
Port, Andrew I. 1967-
