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The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany's Nazi Past (Hardcover)
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The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany's Nazi Past (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Second World War History
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This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Gunther
Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The
Boat), and West Germany's Vergangenheitsbewaltigung. As a war
reporter during the Battle of the Atlantic, Buchheim benefitted
from distinct privileges, yet he was never in a position of power.
Almost thirty years later, Buchheim confronted the duality of his
own past and railed against what he perceived to be a varnished
public memory of the submarine campaign. Michael Rothberg's theory
of the implicated beneficiary is used as a lens to view Buchheim
and this duality. Das Boot has been retold by others worldwide
because many people claim that the story bears an anti-war message.
Wolfgang Petersen's critically acclaimed 1981 film and
interpretations as a comedy sketch, a theatrical play, and a
streamed television sequel have followed. This trajectory of
Buchheim's personal memory reflects a process that practitioners of
memory studies have described as transnational memory formation.
Archival footage, interviews, and teaching materials reflect the
relevance of Das Boot since its debut. Given the debates that
surrounded Buchheim's endeavors, the question now raised is whether
Germany's "mastering the past" serves as a model for other
societies analyzing their own histories. Sitting at the
intersection of History, Literature and Film Studies, this is an
unprecedented case study depicting how the pre- and postwar times
affected writers and others caught in the middle of the drama of
the era.
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