Bill Niven

Germans as Victims

Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany
Herausgeber: Niven, Bill

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Produktbeschreibung

Nearly sixty years after the defeat of Nazism, some in Germany now feel that the Germans were the victims--not least of relentless attempts to remind them of past crimes. This is the first examination of the shift in the culture of memory away from a focus on German perpetration, and towards one on German suffering. Students of German history, politics and culture will find this contextualization of current victim discourse within a wider historical framework invaluable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781403990426
• ISBN-10: 1403990425
• Artikelnr.: 22555096

Autorenporträt

Bill Niven

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Contributors Maps Introduction; B.Niven The Politics of the
Past in the 1950s: Rhetorics of Victimization in East and West Germany;
R.G.Moeller Victims in Uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s;
R.G.Moeller Taboo or Tradition? The 'Germans as Victims' Theme in West
Germany until the Early 1990s; R.Wittlinger The Continually Suffering
Nation? Cinematic Representations of German Victimhood; P.Cooke The Birth
of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy: From the 'Historians'
Dispute' to German Suffering; H.Schmitz The GDR and Memory of the Bombing
of Dresden; B.Niven Victims of the Berlin Wall; P.Ahonen The Victims of
Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change
in German Commemorative Politics; A.H.Beattie Representations of German
Wartime Suffering in Recent Fiction; S.Taberner Air War Legacies: From
Dresden to Baghdad; A.Huyssen From the Margins to the Centre? The Discourse
on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany; K.von Oppen & S.Wolff On Taboos,
Traumas and Other Myths: Why the Debate About German Victims of the Second
World War is not a Historians' Controversy; S.Berger Chronology of
Victimhood Select Bibliography Index.