The temptation of despair
Subtitle: tales of the 1940s
By: Werner Sollors
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780674052437
Subjects: Art and the war; Influence; Motion pictures and the war; Denazification; World War, 1939-1945; Social psychology; Reconstruction (1939-1951); Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Before success; title: March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe; title: May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject; title: June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons; title: October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy; title: January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation; title: April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi; title: August 20, 1948; title: May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow; title: Coda. Comic relief?; title: Afterword.