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German "Victimhood" During World War Two: A New Chapter in Germany’s Coming to Terms with Its Past?

Author : Christopher Reichow
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656653488
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book German "Victimhood" During World War Two: A New Chapter in Germany’s Coming to Terms with Its Past? written by Christopher Reichow and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1,0, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna - School of International Studies, language: English, abstract: The Second World War and its historical categorization remains a disputed topic within the German society. Still, the way of how Germans are rethinking their history is in a state of flux. While the question of collective and individual German guilt has attracted increased scientific and popular attention since the late 1960s, more precisely after the Eichmann and Auschwitz trials, German intellectuals and the German media have in recent years turned their attention, again, towards German suffering during the war. This can be seen as a recourse within a new framework. Already in the immediate postwar period, Germans depicted themselves as victims of the war and its settlement. The preferred self-image was that of being first a victim of Hitler’s and then of enemies hands. Once again, though very late, Germans today consider their own countrymen as victims. In movies and books, they depict themselves and their ancestors not only as villains, but also as people who endured air bombing, starvation, and expulsion. This revived way of storytelling began around the new millennium and focused espe-cially on Germany’s civilian population. An important stimulus for Germany’s coming to terms with its past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung, was once again triggered by Günter Grass, born in 1927 in Danzig, one of the country’s most popular and successful authors. Already as a member of the famous Group 47, he had – inter alia – initiated a new concept to rejuvenate German literature, particularly with his book The Tin Drum. He also contested a denial of civic responsibility and guilt in past and present, which he saw occurring in the consumerist-driven Bonn Republic. His first two books written in the new millennium, the novel Crab-walk, published in 2002, and his autobiographic work Peeling the Onion, released in 2006, were widely analyzed and sparked off a heated debate on both German guilt and German suffering. By using both books as a case study, this essay examines the main issues that were addressed by Grass and points out today’s situation of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

German "Victimhood" During World War Two: A New Chapter in Germany's Coming to Terms with Its Past?

Author : Christopher Reichow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783656653462
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book German "Victimhood" During World War Two: A New Chapter in Germany's Coming to Terms with Its Past? written by Christopher Reichow and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1,0, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna - School of International Studies, language: English, abstract: The Second World War and its historical categorization remains a disputed topic within the German society. Still, the way of how Germans are rethinking their history is in a state of flux. While the question of collective and individual German guilt has attracted increased scientific and popular attention since the late 1960s, more precisely after the Eichmann and Auschwitz trials, German intellectuals and the German media have in recent years turned their attention, again, towards German suffering during the war. This can be seen as a recourse within a new framework. Already in the immediate postwar period, Germans depicted themselves as victims of the war and its settlement. The preferred self-image was that of being first a victim of Hitler's and then of enemies hands. Once again, though very late, Germans today consider their own countrymen as victims. In movies and books, they depict themselves and their ancestors not only as villains, but also as people who endured air bombing, starvation, and expulsion. This revived way of storytelling began around the new millennium and focused espe-cially on Germany's civilian population. An important stimulus for Germany's coming to terms with its past, or Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, was once again triggered by Gunter Grass, born in 1927 in Danzig, one of the country's most popular and successful authors. Already as a member of the famous Group 47, he had - inter alia - initiated a new concept to rejuvenate German literature, particularly with his book The Tin Drum. He also contested a denial of civic responsibility and guilt in past and present, which he saw occurring in the consumerist-driven Bonn Republic. His first two books written in the new millennium, the novel Crab-walk, published in 2002, and his autobiograp

Narratives of Trauma

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042033207
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Trauma written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering has attracted a lot of critical attention over the past decade, in both Cultural and Literary Studies and History. This volume brings together British, German, Dutch and American scholars from the fields of Cultural Studies, History and Sociology to address the national and international significance of discourses of ‘German wartime suffering’ in post-war and contemporary Germany. The focus of this interdisciplinary volume is both on the historical roots of the ‘Germans as victims’ narratives and the forms of their continuing existence in contemporary public memory and culture. The first three sections of this volume explore the conditions of German victim discourses in a variety of media and public arenas from historiography, sociology, literature and film to monuments, civil defence bunkers and local public memory. The final section sets the contemporary re-articulation of German wartime suffering in an international context with respect to its reception and its reflection in both Western and Eastern Europe and Israel.

The War in the Empty Air

Author : Dagmar Barnouw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253346513
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The War in the Empty Air written by Dagmar Barnouw and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the impact of the war and the Holocaust on the non-Jewish German population remains a subject that is difficult to broach in public. While the literature on the Second World War in Europe is enormous, the experiences of these Germans have been little studied, as if the memories of the defeated were not deserving of preservation. In Germany 1945, an examination of Allied photography of postwar Germany, Dagmar Barnouw demonstrated one of the means by which the victors sought to impose the burden of responsibility for World War II and the Holocaust on the German people as a whole. Now, in The War in the Empty Air, she demonstrates how deeply that narrative took hold and the silence it imposed, in the context of recent controversies surrounding history and memory.

Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany

Author : Markus Wahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000011763
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany written by Markus Wahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work, it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order to continue practising, leading to persistence in the social conception of medicine and disease after Communism took hold. This was particularly evident in attitudes towards and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and the pathology of deviant behaviour among young people.

Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War

Author : Randall Hansen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148752823X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War written by Randall Hansen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims’ histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events. Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War demonstrates the trend towards a victim-centred collective memory as well as the interplay of memory politics and public commemorative culture.

Returning Memories

Author : Christiane Wienand
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139044
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Returning Memories written by Christiane Wienand and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification.

Germans as Victims

Author : Bill Niven
Publisher : Palgrave
ISBN 13 : 9781403990426
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Germans as Victims written by Bill Niven and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s and certainly the 1980s, Germans have been confronting the Nazi past and the legacy of German perpetration. However, over recent years, Germany has become increasingly preoccupied with German suffering during the war and the post-war period. Arguably, it is no longer the Holocaust that takes centre-stage in the contemporary German culture of memory but the trauma caused by Allied bombing of German cities, and by the expulsion of millions of Germans from eastern Europe at the end of the war. This thought-provoking and lively collection of essays, by a team of leading scholars in the field, explores current memory trends in Germany. What has triggered this preoccupation with German suffering? How dangerous is it? Is it really new, or have the Germans always tended to empathise more with their own losses than with Nazi victims? Together these essays are an invaluable resource for students and teachers, and are essential reading for all with an interest in how Germans, in the new millennium, are facing up to their past.

Women in European Holocaust Films

Author : Ingrid Lewis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319650610
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Women in European Holocaust Films written by Ingrid Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how women’s experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution. Focusing on fiction films made in Europe between 1945 and the present, this study explores dominant discourses on and cinematic representation of women as perpetrators, victims and resisters. Ingrid Lewis contends that European Holocaust Cinema underwent a rich and complex trajectory of change with regard to the representation of women. This change both reflects and responds to key socio-cultural developments in the intervening decades as well as to new directions in cinema, historical research and politics of remembrance. The book will appeal to international scholars, students and educators within the fields of Holocaust Studies, Film Studies, European Cinema and Women’s Studies.

“Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Present”

Author : Sophia Wiatrowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book “Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Present” written by Sophia Wiatrowski and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding one’s past can be difficult and can often bring complicated feelings and emotions when reliving such memories. In Germany this is referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Ver-gangen-heights-be-vait-igung) which means “coming to terms with the past.” The term Vergangenheitsbewältigung was created in Germany as a way to remember and educated those about the mistakes made during World War II (Rustchmann). Through analyzing the history of the term, the social understanding of the term, and my individual experiences when it comes to the topic it is understood how “coming to terms with the past” impacts people in the 21st century. In this analysis there will be historical context that explains why and how this term became so prevalent in German culture, especially how it has impacted various parts of German society, such as the arts. Then exploring how its continuity has impacted the generations that came after the events of World War II and how these three generations reflect when it comes to the past. Then by moving into my individual experiences, being in Germany as well as being a part of the fourth generation of German decedents. Through this creative work of analyzing historical significance, societal impact, personal experience, and my generational impact it is evident that Vergangenheitsbewältigung or “coming to terms with the past” impacts people differently.

Echoes of Trauma and Shame in German Families

Author : Lina Jakob
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253048273
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Trauma and Shame in German Families written by Lina Jakob and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives? For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II—to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions—was unthinkable. But in the past few years, growing numbers of Germans in their 40s and 50s calling themselves Kriegsenkel, or Grandchildren of the War, have begun to explore the fundamental impact of the war on their present lives and mental health. Their parents and grandparents experienced bombardment, death, forced displacement, and the shame of the Nazi war crimes. The Kriegsenkel feel their own psychological struggles—from depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout to broken marriages and career problems—are the direct consequences of unresolved war experiences passed down through their families. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and a broad range of scholarship, Lina Jakob considers how the Kriegsenkel movement emerged at the nexus between public and familial silences about World War II, and critically discusses how this new collective identity is constructed and addressed within the framework of psychology and Western therapeutic culture.

The Indictment

Author : E. Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Indictment written by E. Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Germany and the Nazi Legacy

Author : C. Pearce
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591221
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Germany and the Nazi Legacy written by C. Pearce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a range of public debates on the Nazi legacy in Germany since Schröder's SDP-Green coalition came to power in 1998. A central theme is the 'dialectic of normality' whereby references to Nazi past impact upon present normality. The book is a valuable resource for students of contemporary German politics, history and culture.

The Age of Hiroshima

Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193452
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Hiroshima written by Michael D. Gordin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination—the end of one age and the dawn of another. The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.

Collective Memory in International Relations

Author : Kathrin Bachleitner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895362
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Collective Memory in International Relations written by Kathrin Bachleitner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the influence of collective memory in International Relations (IR). It inquires where a country's memory first emerges and how it guides states through time in world politics, and locates the origins of national memory in political strategies within the internationalenvironment.The study then turns to the domestic landscape, where among a country's public, it finds memory to be the carrier of national identity over time. From there, however, the analysis reverts to the international here: in the medium term, collective memory begins to channel international statebehaviour, whereas, in the long run, it circumvents a country's normative horizons. In this book, collective memory is thus assumed to become manifest in world politics in four varying forms: as a country's political strategy, as its public identity, as underwriting its international statebehaviour, and finally, as a source for its national values. All four theorized manifestations of memory are tested in a comparative study of (West) Germany and Austria and the impact their diverse post-war interpretations of the Nazi legacy had on their international policies over time. With theillustrative help of the empirical cases, the book not only explores whether collective memory has an influence on political outcomes but how and why it matters for IR.

Japan's Contested War Memories

Author : Philip A. Seaton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134150040
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Contested War Memories written by Philip A. Seaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, and ends with the sixtieth anniversary commemorations. Analyzing the variety of ways in which the Japanese people narrate, contest and interpret the past, the book is also a major critique of the way the subject has been treated in much of the English-language. Philip Seaton concludes that war history in Japan today is more divisive and widely argued over than in any of the other major Second World War combatant nations. Providing a sharp contrast to the many orthodox statements about Japanese 'ignorance', amnesia' and 'denial' about the war, this is an engaging and illuminating study that will appeal to scholars and students of Japanese history, politics, cultural studies, society and memory theory.

Germany and the Second World War

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199282773
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Germany and the Second World War written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The five volumes so far published in German take the story to the end of 1941, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War. This volume surveys the first year of the war deliberately begun by Nazi Germany. The authors examine the train of interconnected political and military events, and set military operations against the background of Hitler's war policy and general aims, both immediate and long term. The authors show that the conflict took a course quite different from that which Hitler had intended, but nevertheless resulted in a series of conquests for the Third Reich.