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Coping With The Nazi Past : West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gassert, Philipp.
- Series:
- Studies in German History
- Studies in German History ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conflict of generations--Germany (West)--Congresses.
- Conflict of generations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- National socialism--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
- National socialism.
- New Left--Germany (West)--Congresses.
- New Left.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues, including prosecution f
- Contents:
- Coping with the Nazi Past; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. CRITICAL MEMORY AND CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER 2. THE RETURN OF THE IMAGES; CHAPTER 3. EXPLANATION, DISSOCIATION, APOLOGIA; CHAPTER 4. THE "COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATIVE PROCEEDINGS-FRANCE"; CHAPTER 5. WEST GERMANY AND COMPENSATION FOR NATIONAL SOCIALIST EXPROPRIATION; CHAPTER 6.THE MODERNIZATION OF WEST GERMAN POLICE; CHAPTER 7. WEST GERMAN SOCIETY AND FOREIGNERS IN THE 1960S; CHAPTER 8. THE WEST GERMAN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM AND THE LEGACY OF NAZISM; CHAPTER 9. DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
- CHAPTER 10. THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION AND THE LEGACIES OF THE NAZI PASTCHAPTER 11. THE GERMAN NEW LEFT AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM; CHAPTER 12. PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE 1960S; CHAPTER 13. NEW LEFTISTS AND WEST GERMANY; CHAPTER 14. CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUALS AND THE DEBATE OVER NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE HOLOCAUST IN THE 1960S; CHAPTER 15. CATHOLIC STUDENT FRATERNITIES, THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PAST, AND THE STUDENT MOVEMENT; CHAPTER 16. TURNING AWAY FROM THE PAST; CHAPTER 17. GERMANY'S PR MAN; CHAPTER 18. AUSCHWITZ AND THE NUCLEAR SONDERWEG; CONTRIBUTORS; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857457066
- 0857457063
- OCLC:
- 994873731
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