Germans as victims : remembering the past in contemporary Germany
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : German victimhood at the turn of the millennium / Bill Niven
- The politics of the past in the 1950s : rhetorics and victimization in East and West Germany ; Victims in uniform : West German combat movies from the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller
- Taboo or tradition? The 'Germans as victims' theme in West Germany until the early 1990s / Ruth Wittlinger
- The continually suffering nation? Cinematic representations of German victimhood / Paul Cooke
- The birth of the collective from the spirit of empathy : from the "historians' dispute" to German suffering / Helmut Schmitz
- The GDR and memory of the bombing of Dresden / Bill Niven
- Victims of the Berlin Wall / Pertti Ahonen
- The victims of totalitarianism and the centrality of Nazi genocide : continuity and change in German commemorative politics / Andrew H. Beattie
- Representations of German wartime suffering in recent fiction / Stuart Taberner
- Air war legacies : from Dresden to Baghdad / Andreas Huyssen
- From the margins to the centre? The discourse on expellees and victimhood in Germany / Karoline von Oppen and Stefan Wolff
- On taboos, traumas and other myths : why the debate about German victims of the Second World War is not a historians' controversy / Stefan Berger.