Format:
xi, 294 Seiten
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781474241854
Content:
"Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by the present.The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and often dissonant interpretations and representations of these events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and instrumentalized by a later present"--
Content:
"Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by the present.The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and often dissonant interpretations and representations of these events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and instrumentalized by a later present"--
Note:
1. Introduction : disturbing pasts
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PART I. EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS ; 2. Guilt and shame among communities of experience
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3. Shamed by Nazi crimes : the first step towards Germans' re-education or a catalyst for their wish to forget?
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4. Ashamed about the past : the case of Nazi collaborators and their families in postwar Dutch society
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5. Autobiography, moral witnessing, and the disturbing memory of Nazi euthanasia
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PART II. DISTURBING NARRATIVES ; 6. Disturbing mending : on the imagined third generation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli literature of the second generation
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7. Disturbing the past : the representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte
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8. The return of the Jew in Polish culture
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PART III. FASCINATION/PLEASURE ; 9. Don't mention the war
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10. 'However sick a joke...' : on comedy, the representation of suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy
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1.. Disturbing Anselm Kiefer
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PART IV. BETTER FUTURES? : (DIS)PLACING IDENTITIES ; 12. German tourists in Europe and reminders of a disturbing past
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13. Reverberations of a disturbing past : reconciliation activities of young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s
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14. Disturbing pasts and better futures : a comparison of recent approaches to the past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans
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15. How to cope with it? : the Steuben Society of America's politics of memory and the Holocaust
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Afterword : hauntings and revisitings
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474241861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474241878
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ISBN 1474241867
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474241861
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bird, Stephanie Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 ISBN 9781474241854
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ISBN 9781474241885
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474241861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474241878
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Nationalsozialistisches Verbrechen
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Geschichte
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Nationalsozialistisches Verbrechen
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Judenvernichtung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bird, Stephanie
Author information:
Fulbrook, Mary 1951-
Author information:
Wienand, Christiane 1979-