Anti-fascism and memory in East Germany
Subtitle: remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989
By: Josie McLellan.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Anti-fascist movements -- Germany (East) -- History.; Memory -- Social aspects -- Germany (East).; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Foreign public opinion, German.; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Foreign.
Description: "Antifascism and Memory in East Germany dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalized or politically oppositional groups and individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came to terms with the heavy burden of their pre-war past."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.