Guilt, suffering, and memory
Subtitle: Germany remembers its dead of World War II
By: Gilad Margalit ; translated by Haim Watzman.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780253353764; 9780253221339
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany; Memory -- Social aspects; Political culture -- Germany; Memory -- Political aspects -- Germany; War memorials -- Germany; Death -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Politics and government
Work titles: Ashmah, sevel ṿe-zikaron.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coping with guilt: the Germans and the Nazi past; title: Remembering national suffering in World War II; title: German memory and remembrance of the dead from 1945 to the 1960s; title: Memorial days in West Germany and their metamorphosis, 1945-2006; title: The bombing of Germany's cities and German memory politics, 1945-1989; title: Flight and expulsion in German political culture and memory since 1945; title: The resurgence of the German sense of victimization since reunification.