Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond : disturbing pasts / edited by Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Julia Wagner and Christiane Wienand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bird, Stephanie, editor.

Fulbrook, Mary, 1951- editor.

Wagner, Julia, editor.

Wienand, Christiane, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945.

Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.

Internment camps.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

War crimes.

National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany.

National socialism.

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Germany.

Nazi concentration camps.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : disturbing the past / Stephanie Bird and Mary Fulbrook

Guilt and shame among communities of experience, connection and identification / Mary Fulbrook

Shamed by Nazi crimes : the first step towards Germans' re-education or a catalyst for their wish to forget? / Ulrike Weckel

Ashamed about the past : the case of Nazi collaborators and their families in post-war Dutch society / Ismee Tames

Autobiography, moral witnessing, and the disturbing memory of Nazi euthanasia / Susanne C. Knittel

Disturbing mending : on the imagined third generation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli literature of the second generation / Tsila Ratner

Disturbing the past : the representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte / Katya Krylova

The return of the Jew in Polish culture / Uilleam Blacker

Don't mention the war / Julian Petley

'However sick a joke ... ' : on comedy, the representation of suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy / Stephanie Bird

Disturbing Anselm Kiefer / Caitríona Leahy

German tourists in Europe and reminders of a disturbing past / Julia Wagner

Reverberations of a disturbing past : reconciliation activities of young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s / Christiane Wienand

Disturbing pasts and better futures? : a comparison of recent approaches to the past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans / Gaëlle Fisher

How to cope with it? : the Steuben Society of America's politics of memory and the Holocaust / Julia Lange

Afterword : hauntings and revisitings across generations / Lisa Appignanesi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474241854

1474241859

OCLC:

908373512

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