Legacies of Stalingrad
Subtitle: remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945
By: Christina Morina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781107013049
Subjects: Politics and government; Collective memory; Political culture; Influence; Campaigns; Social conditions; World War, 1939-1945; War and society; History
Description: "Christina Morina's book examines the history of the Eastern Front war and its impact on German politics and society throughout the postwar period. She argues that the memory of the Eastern Front war was one of the most crucial and contested themes in each part of the divided Germany. Although the Holocaust gained the most prominent position in West German memory, official memory in East Germany centered on the war against the USSR. The book analyzes the ways in which these memories emerged in postwar German political culture during and after the Cold War, and how views of these events played a role in contemporary political debates. The analysis pays close attention to the biographies of the protagonists both during the war and after, drawing distinctions between the accepted, public memory of events and individual encounters with the war"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Memory under occupation : the emergence of competing memories of the Eastern Front; title: Cold War : political memory of the Eastern Front in divided Germany; title: Lessons of the Eastern Front : the Wehrmacht legacy and the remilitarization of Germany; title: Peacetime wars : official memory and the integration of individual wartime experiences; title: The past reinforced : the memory of the Eastern Front from Ulbricht to Honecker; title: The past revisited : West German memory of the Eastern Front in the era of detente.