Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond
Subtitle: disturbing pasts
By: edited by Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Julia Wagner and Christiane Wienand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781474241854; 9781474241861; 9781474241878
Subjects: Collective memory; War crimes; Concentration camps; National socialism; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Atrocities; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Introduction : disturbing the past, disturbed by the past / Stephanie Bird and Mary Fulbrook; title: PART I. EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS. Troubling issues : guilt and shame among persecutors and persecuted / Mary Fulbrook; title: Shamed by Nazi crimes : the first step towards Germans' re-education or a catalyst for their wish to forget? / Ulrike Weckel; title: Ashamed about the past : the case of Nazi collaborators and their families in postwar Dutch society / Ismee Tames; title: Autobiography, moral witnessing, and the disturbing memory of Nazi euthanasia / Susanne Knittel; title: PART II. DISTURBING NARRATIVES. Disturbing mending : on the imagined third generation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli literature of the second generation / Tsila Ratner; title: Disturbing the past : the representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte / Katya Krylova; title: The return of the Jew in Polish culture / Uilleam Blacker; title: PART III. FASCINATION / PLEASURE. Don't mention the war / Julian Petley; title: 'However sick a joke...' : on comedy, the representation of suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy / Stephanie Bird; title: Disturbing Anselm Kiefer / Caitriona Leahy; title: PART IV. BETTER FUTURES? : (DIS)PLACING IDENTITIES. German tourists in Europe and reminders of a disturbing past / Julia Wagner; title: Reverberations of a disturbing past : reconciliation activities of young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s / Christiane Wienand; title: Disturbing pasts and better futures? : a comparison of recent approaches to the past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans / Gaelle Fisher; title: How to cope with it? : the Steuben Society of America's politics of memory and the Holocaust / Julia Lange; title: Afterword : hauntings and revisitings across generations / Lisa Appignanesi.