Gilad Margalit

Guilt, Suffering, and Memory

Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Guilt, Suffering, and Memory-whose Israeli edition was awarded the Jacob Bahat Prize for best original book-Gilad Margalit discusses the official remembrance ceremonies for the German war dead, the memorials erected to commemorate them, the public discussions of these disparate cultures, and their treatment in postwar German literature and film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 864g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221339
• ISBN-10: 0253221331
• Artikelnr.: 27884863

Autorenporträt

Gilad Margalit

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Coping with Guilt: The Germans and the Nazi Past
2. Remembering National Suffering in World War II
3. German Memory and Remembrance of the Dead from 1945 to the 1960s
4. Memorial Days in West Germany and Their Metamorphosis, 1945-1946
5. The Bombing of Germany's Cities and German Memory Politics, 1945-1989
6. Flight and Expulsion in German Political Culture and Memory since 1945
7. The Resurgence of the German Sense of Victimization since Reunification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index