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West Germans and the Nazi Legacy (Hardcover)
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West Germans and the Nazi Legacy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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The revival of Nazi war crime trials by the start of the 1960s
appeared to usher in a new era of West German reflection,
soul-searching and critical confrontation with the murderous legacy
of the Third Reich. For the first time, the Holocaust began to
assume a central position within the public historical
consciousness. War crime trials were accompanied by a new wave of
commemorative activities, an outpouring of survivor testimony,
novels and historical research, as well as cultural representations
of the Nazi era in terms of films, plays and television series.
West Germans and the Nazi Legacy constitutes a new history of the
complex memory cultures that persisted within West Germany. It
moves away from the much discussed diplomatic overtures by leading
politicians, state-sponsored memorials and other public events to
examine instead the attitudes of the ordinary people at the grass
roots level of West German society. Utilizing the war crimes
trials, this book focuses on responses to the prospect of
continuing investigations, the reception afforded to those found to
have been implicated in the crimes of the regime, and the sheer
resonance that courtroom proceedings could generate within a local
community. It draws upon case studies dealing with different modes
of criminal behaviour, from the deliberately sadistic actions of
individual concentration camp guards, to the level of knowledge
held by police officers overseeing the resettlement' of Polish
Jews. It also compares responses afforded to trials conducted in
different regions of the Federal Republic -- areas with contrasting
political, social and religious constituencies which often had
their own peculiarly close relationship with the former Nazi regime
to contend with. Unlike many recent works on West German memory
which offer a case study of an individual town or city, this book
takes into account events from across the Federal Republic. It
highlights the influence of distinct
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