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10%OFFGilad Margalit - Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II - 9780253221339 - V9780253221339
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Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II

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Description for Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II Paperback. Unresolved tensions in German postwar memorials Num Pages: 404 pages, 32 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 568.

Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead, exposes an unresolved tension between a discourse of guilt and a discourse of national suffering and victimization. In Germany, under the auspices of the Allied occupation, remembrance honored the victims of the Nazis and those who had fought against the regime. After the partition of Germany, a new culture emerged, memorializing the civilian dead and fallen German soldiers. Despite the fierce ideological rivalry between East and West Germany, however, certain similarities existed. The political leaderships who ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221339
SKU
V9780253221339
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About Gilad Margalit
Gilad Margalit is Senior Lecturer in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa, Israel and Deputy Director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies. He is author of Die Nachkriegsdeutschen und "ihre Zigeuner": Die Behandlung der Sinti und Roma im Schatten von Auschwitz and Germany and Its Gypsies: A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal. Haim Watzman is ... Read more

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