Introduction: violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe
Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann; 1. Post-traumatic stress disorder and
World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society?
Alice Förster and Birgit Beck; 2. Between pain and silence: remembering the
victims of violence in Germany after 1949 Sabine Behrenbeck; 3. Paths of
normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France,
and West Germany in the 1950s Ido De Haan; 4. Trauma, memory and
motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany,
1945-9 Atina Grossman; 5. Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and
Vienna in 1945 Andrea Petö; 6. 'Going home': the personal adjustment of
British and American servicemen after the war Joanna Bourke; 7. Desperately
seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of war Dagmar Herzog; 8.
Family life and 'normality' in postwar British culture Pat Thane; 9.
Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in
the 1950s Michael Wildt; 10. 'Strengthened and purified through ordeal by
fire': ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe Damian van Melis;
11. The nationalism of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in
western Europe, 1940-60 Pieter Lagrou; 12. Italy after fascism: the
predicament of dominant narratives Donald Sasson; 13. The politics of
post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s west and east German industrial design Paul
Betts; 14. Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some
Germans think of Tourism after May 8, 1945? Alon Confino.
