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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Focussing on German
responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the
Holocaust traces the process of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasions and
popular mythologies with regards to the Nazi era, and cultural
representations of the Holocaust up to the present day. It explores
the complexities of German memory cultures, the construction of war
and Holocaust memorials and the various political debates and
scandals surrounding the darkest chapter in German history. The
book comparatively maps out the legacy of the Holocaust in both
East and West Germany, as well as the unified Germany that
followed, to engender a consideration of the effects of division,
Cold War politics and reunification on German understanding of the
Holocaust. Synthesizing key historiographical debates and drawing
upon a variety of primary source material, this volume is an
important exploration of Germany's postwar relationship with the
Holocaust. Complete with chapters on education, war crime trials,
memorialization and Germany and the Holocaust today, as well as a
number of illustrations, maps and a detailed bibliography, Postwar
Germany and the Holocaust is a pivotal text for anyone interested
in understanding the full impact of the Holocaust in Germany.
The Holocaust occupies a central place in British society.
References within media and political spheres remain commonplace
and there has been a national Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK
every January since 2000. Remembrance of the Second World War and
the Nazi genocide plays an important role in the creation of social
cohesion and identity in Britain, yet how, exactly, does the
country deal with this difficult period of history? Bringing
together leading academics in the field, this volume explores
Britain's complex relationship with the Holocaust since 1945.
Encompassing representations of the Holocaust within film, art,
public exhibition spaces and official, state-sanctioned
commemoration, this study offers an innovative, interdisciplinary
approach to the subject and highlights some of the latest
developments in research. It examines political, social and
cultural reactions to the Holocaust and contributes to wider
questions as to how war and genocide is recalled in today's
multicultural Britain.
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
How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary
volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and
cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials
of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the
start of the twenty-first century.
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany was under the grip of the Third
Reich. Headed by Adolf Hitler, this National Socialist state
endeavoured to control every aspect of the nation's political,
social, economic, religious and cultural life, and indoctrinate
every German citizen in its ideology. This intrinsically racist
regime also embarked on an expansionist foreign policy that, at its
peak, brought most of continental Europe under Nazi control. The
resulting war - and genocide - killed millions of soldiers and
civilians and its effects continue to be felt to this day. Nazism,
it has been suggested, was "the ultimate embodiment of evil", and
historians have grappled with one fundamental question since 1945:
how was any of this possible in a modern, cultured nation in the
heart of 20th century Europe? There is no easy way to sum up the
Third Reich, but in this short book Caroline Sharples tells the
story of Hitler's rise to power and looks at the arguments which
have raged about the Third Reich, in particular the argument about
how much power Hitler actually had. Was he, as some believe, an
omnipotent leader with clear ideological goals and a clear
programme for implementing them? Or was the Third Reich much more
confused, with ad hoc decision making and intense power rivalries
generating a "cumulative radicalism" which eventually brought it
down?
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Focussing on German
responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the
Holocaust traces the process of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasions and
popular mythologies with regards to the Nazi era, and cultural
representations of the Holocaust up to the present day. It explores
the complexities of German memory cultures, the construction of war
and Holocaust memorials and the various political debates and
scandals surrounding the darkest chapter in German history. The
book comparatively maps out the legacy of the Holocaust in both
East and West Germany, as well as the unified Germany that
followed, to engender a consideration of the effects of division,
Cold War politics and reunification on German understanding of the
Holocaust. Synthesizing key historiographical debates and drawing
upon a variety of primary source material, this volume is an
important exploration of Germany's postwar relationship with the
Holocaust. Complete with chapters on education, war crime trials,
memorialization and Germany and the Holocaust today, as well as a
number of illustrations, maps and a detailed bibliography, Postwar
Germany and the Holocaust is a pivotal text for anyone interested
in understanding the full impact of the Holocaust in Germany.
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