Memory as burden and liberation
| Titel: | Memory as burden and liberation : Germans and their Nazi past (1945 - 2010) / Anna Wolff-Poweska. Transl. by Maria Skowrońska |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main : Lang-Ed., 2015 |
| Umfang: | 419 Seiten ; 210 mm x 148 mm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik ; 10 |
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| ISBN: | 363164051X ; 3653024439 ; 9783631640517 ; 9783653024432 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Introduction
- p. 7
- Chapter 1
- Mnemosyne - Mother of the Muses
- p. 13
- 1
- Dialectics of memory and forgetting
- p. 15
- 2
- History versus memory
- p. 23
- 3
- Memory and identity
- p. 32
- 4
- History and politics
- p. 39
- 5
- A historian between media and politics
- p. 48
- Chapter 2
- Between the end and the beginning
- p. 69
- 1
- Legacy of the two World Wars
- p. 69
- 2
- Coming to terms with the past
- p. 77
- 3
- Guilt and shame
- p. 88
- Collective guilt: truth and myths
- p. 93
- Helplessness of an intellectual
- p. 99
- 4
- Perpetrators and victims
- p. 104
- 5
- In search of defensive strategies
- p. 107
- Innocent criminals
- p. 110
- Honest murderers
- p. 112
- Hitler and his 'clique'
- p. 117
- 'The disciplined', 'the patriots', 'the idealists'
- p. 119
- The 'big' and the 'little' person in a uniform
- p. 121
- Social 'normality'
- p. 130
- 6
- Crime and punishment
- p. 133
- Denazification - a failed experiment?
- p. 135
- Social reaction
- p. 142
- Chapter 3
- Divided nation, divided memory
- p. 147
- 1
- The winners of history: the German Democratic Republic in the shadow of anti-fascism
- p. 149
- 2
- Burdened with history: the Federal Republic of Germany between myth and memory
- p. 167
- Community of silence?
- p. 170
- The return of history
- p. 192
- Patriotism after Auschwitz
- p. 204
- Identity of a 'normal' nation
- p. 212
- Chapter 4
- The Berlin Republic: a marathon of memory
- p. 221
- 1
- German turning points; 1945 and 1990
- p. 221
- 2
- Debates that changed Germany
- p. 228
- The Wehrmacht: a defence community?
- p. 230
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: an ordinary German as a Hitler's assistant?
- p. 241
- Martin Walser: Holocaust as a "moral bludgeon"
- p. 249
- Mourning as the conscience of history?
- p. 257
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - a symbol of mourning or disgrace?
- p. 261
- How much past in the future?
- p. 270
- Chapter 5
- Days of Remembrance
- p. 275
- 1
- Memory as a ritual
- p. 275
- 2
- 8 May: dialectics of defeat and liberation
- p. 283
- The German Federal Republic: the day of liberation
- p. 287
- The Federal Republic of Germany: day of mourning or celebration?
- p. 291
- In the reunited Germany
- p. 303
- 3
- The Night of Broken Glass - The Holocaust as an identity dilemma
- p. 314
- 4
- The war against Poland in German oblivion
- p. 332
- In the clutches of prejudice and propaganda
- p. 333
- On the way to the dialogue of memory
- p. 342
- Bibliography
- p. 353
- Zusammenfassung
- p. 401
- Index
- p. 409
