Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond: disturbing pasts
"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...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2016
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| Edition: | First published |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Cover: http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/854/9781474241854/image/lgcover.9781474241854.jpg Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1095687026/04 |
| Author Notes: | edited by Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Julia Wagner and Christiane Wienand |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : disturbing pasts Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Julia Wagner and Christiane Wienand
- PART I. EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS ; 2. Guilt and shame among communities of experience Mary Fulbrook
- 3. Shamed by Nazi crimes : the first step towards Germans' re-education or a catalyst for their wish to forget? Ulrike Weckel
- 4. Ashamed about the past : the case of Nazi collaborators and their families in postwar Dutch society Ismee Tames
- 5. Autobiography, moral witnessing, and the disturbing memory of Nazi euthanasia Susanne Knittel
- PART II. DISTURBING NARRATIVES ; 6. Disturbing mending : on the imagined third generation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli literature of the second generation Tsila Ratner
- 7. Disturbing the past : the representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte Katya Krylova
- 8. The return of the Jew in Polish culture Uilleam Blacker
- PART III. FASCINATION/PLEASURE ; 9. Don't mention the war Julian Petley
- 10. 'However sick a joke...' : on comedy, the representation of suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy Stephanie Bird
- 1.. Disturbing Anselm Kiefer Caitríona Leahy
- PART IV. BETTER FUTURES? : (DIS)PLACING IDENTITIES ; 12. German tourists in Europe and reminders of a disturbing past Julia Wagner
- 13. Reverberations of a disturbing past : reconciliation activities of young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s Christiane Wienand
- 14. Disturbing pasts and better futures : a comparison of recent approaches to the past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans Gaëlle Fisher
- 15. How to cope with it? : the Steuben Society of America's politics of memory and the Holocaust Julia Lange
- Afterword : hauntings and revisitings Lisa Appignanesi.