Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

The World Hitler Never Made

Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism

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Produktbeschreibung

What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician? Originally published in 2005, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays appearing in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany post-1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representation of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reactions to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalisation of the Nazi past in Western memory.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9780521847063
• ISBN-10: 0521847060
• Artikelnr.: 20887957

Autorenporträt

Gavriel Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University (Connecticut). He is a specialist in the history and memory of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. His previous publications include Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Nazis Win World War II: 1. Great Britain defeated: between resistance and collaboration; 2. The United States and the dilemmas of military intervention; 3. Germany's wartime triumph: from dystopia to normalcy; 4. Other nations: a dissenting view; Part II. Alternative Hitlers: 5. The fugitive Fuhrer and the search for justice; 6. The world without Hitler: better or worse?; Part III. Hypothetical Holocausts: 7. Hypothetical holocausts and the mistrust of memory.

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Part I. The Nazis Win World War II: 1. Great Britain defeated: between resistance and collaboration
2. The United States and the dilemmas of military intervention
3. Germany's wartime triumph: from dystopia to normalcy
4. Other nations: a dissenting view
Part II. Alternative Hitlers: 5. The fugitive Fuhrer and the search for justice
6. The world without Hitler: better or worse?
Part III. Hypothetical Holocausts: 7. Hypothetical holocausts and the mistrust of memory.

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: 'With The World Hitler Never Made Gavriel Rosenfeld takes a completely fascinating and highly original cut into the complex of questions concerning the relationship between history and memory on the subject of Nazism and its place in post-1945 popular culture. He tackles these themes with great verve, writing with admirable clarity, and marshalling a prodigious array of speculative fictions and 'alternate histories' in order to build his arguments. The resulting book is both accessible and challenging, densely documented and thoroughly absorbing. All German historians will want to read it, as will anyone interested in Holocaust memory and the legacies of Nazism.' Geoff Eley, University of Michigan