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War stories : the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany / Robert G. Moeller.
Van Pelt Library DD820.P72 G526 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moeller, Robert G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political refugees--Germany (West)--History.
- Political refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Refoulement.
- Population transfers--Germany.
- Population transfers.
- History.
- Germany.
- Germans--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Germans.
- Eastern Europe.
- Germany (West).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selective remembering" that took place among West Germans during the postwar years: in particular, they remembered crimes committed against Germans, crimes that--according to some contemporary accounts--were comparable to the crimes of Germans against Jews. Moeller draws on a wide range of U.S. and German government documents, political debates, film archives, letters, oral histories, and newspaper accounts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520223268
- OCLC:
- 44461954
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