The war in the empty air : victims, perpetrators, and postwar Germans / Dagmar Barnouw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnouw, Dagmar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Historiography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Photography in historiography.

National characteristics, German.

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Germany--History--1933-1945--Historiography.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse' questions taboos that the political and cultural elites in those three countries would rather leave alone ... [Barnouw] makes us understand why the maintenance of a privileged memory of the Nazi period and World War II may not survive much longer."

Contents:

Contents; Preface: The Loss of History in Postwar German Memory; 1. Historical Memory and the Uses of Remorse; 2. ""Their Monstrous Past"": German Wartime Fictions; 3. Censored Memories:""Are the Germans Victims or Perpetrators?""; 4. The War in the Empty Air: A Moral History of Destruction; 5. No End to ""Auschwitz"": Historical or Redemptive Memory; 6. This Side of Good and Evil: A German Story; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-295) and index.

ISBN:

0-253-11182-X

OCLC:

212869027