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Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the
complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after
1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence
and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in
German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those
directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder.
Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by
the present. The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and
often dissonant interpretations and representations of these
events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and
perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the
generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the
complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to
disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and
instrumentalized by a later present.
Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of
returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a
history of memory both during Germany's division and after
unification. Millions of former German soldiers (known as
Heimkehrer, literally "homecomers," or returnees) returned from
captivity as prisoners of war at the end of the Second World War,
an experience that had profound effects on German society and
touched almost every German family. Based on extensive archival
research and oral history interviews, this book provides the first
comprehensive analysis of the history of the German returnees,
explored as a historyof memory, both during Germany's division and
after unification. At its core lies the question of how the
experiences of war captivity were transformed into individual and
collective memories. The book argues that memory of the experience
of captivity and return is complex and multilayered and has been
shaped by postwar political and social frameworks. Christiane
Wienand is a historian and works in Heidelberg, Germany. She holds
a PhD in Historyfrom University College London.
Dieser Sammelband setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Formen
kultureller Integration und Desintegration in Europa auseinander.
Im Zentrum steht die Frage nach den Auspragungen und Mechanismen
dieser Phanomene: Unter welchen sozialen, politischen, normativen
und symbolischen Voraussetzungen finden Integration und
Desintegration in Europa statt? Welche Faktoren dynamisieren die
Entwicklung? Wo liegen die Grenzen des Integrationspotenzials? Der
interdisziplinare Ansatz des Sammelbandes ermoglicht es, die
Vielfalt politischer, kultureller und sozialer Reibungsflachen in
Europa in ihrer Komplexitat zu erfassen und so zu einem tieferen
Verstandnis der europaischen Integrations- und
Desintegrationsprozesse beizutragen."
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the
complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after
1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence
and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in
German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those
directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder.
Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by
the present. The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and
often dissonant interpretations and representations of these
events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and
perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the
generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the
complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to
disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and
instrumentalized by a later present.
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