A nation of victims?
Subtitle: representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present
By: edited by Helmut Schmitz
Contributors: Schmitz, Helmut
Series: German monitor -- no. 67
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789042022096
Subjects: Germans in literature; Germans in motion pictures; Suffering in literature; Suffering in motion pictures; War in literature; World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Germany -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the return of wartime suffering in contemporary German memory culture, literature, and film / Helmut Schmitz; title: Germans in the Lager : reports and narratives about imprisonment in post-war Allied internment camps / Gregor Streim; title: "Die, von denen man erzählt hat, dass sie die kleinen Kinder schlachten" : deutsche Leiderfahrung und Bilder von Juden in der deutschen Kultur nach 1945 : zu einigen Texten Wolfgang Weyrauchs / Hans-Joachim Hahn; title: The representation of Wehrmacht soldiers as victims in post-war German film : Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? and Der Arzt von Stalingrad / Helen Wolfenden; title: The German myth of a victim nation : (re-)presenting Germans as victims in the new debate on their flight and explusion from Eastern Europe / Samuel Salzborn; title: Implicit equations in constructions of German suffering / Bill Niven; title: Dresden and Hamburg : official memory and commemoration of the victims of Allied air raids in the two Germanies / Gilad Margalit; title: Regarding and imagining : contrived immediacy of the Allied bombing campaign in photography, novel, and historiography / Heinz-Peter Preusser; title: Lost in translations? : the discourse of "german suffering" and W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Annette Seidel Arpaci; title: Wahrheit und Erinnerung : die Spuren des Jahres 1945 in Texten von Christa Wolf / Odile Jansen; title: Historicism, sentimentality, and the problem of empathy : Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders in the context of recent representations of German suffering / Helmut Schmitz; title: Literary representations in contemporary German fiction of the expulsions of Germans from the east in 1945 / Stuart Taberner; title: Der Untergang (2004) : victims, perpetrators, and the continuing fascination of fascism / Paul Cooke