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Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany / edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in German history ; v. 7.
- Studies in German history ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Germany--History--20th century.
- Death.
- Cemeteries--Germany--History.
- Cemeteries.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Germany--History--20th century.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Collective memory--Germany.
- Collective memory.
- Germany--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not
- Contents:
- Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death?
- Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-321) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-83695-899-4
- 1-282-62692-2
- 9786612626920
- 0-85745-051-4
- OCLC:
- 645100480
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