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Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence
Dagmar Barnouw
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Description for Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence
Paperback. Photographers from the US Army's Signal Corps were with the armies that drove back Hitler's troops. Soon photos of death camps and starving POWs shocked the home front, giving ample evidence of Nazi brutality. This work argues that the photographs tell a more complex story and hold many clues for a better understanding of the recent German past. Num Pages: 280 pages, 128 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
Packed with carefully chosen photos of the concentration camps, German exiles, the war-injured, children, and bombed-out cities, this book is a moving reminder of the material and moral devastation left behind by Nazi Germany. -Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Demonstrates how perspective plays a key role, not only in photography, but in questions of mastering Germany's past as well. [I]nnovative and fascinating. -Robert C. Holub, University of California-Berkeley After half a century, Germany's coming to terms with Nazism remains a subject of debate. This investigation of the photographic record shows that such ... Read more
Packed with carefully chosen photos of the concentration camps, German exiles, the war-injured, children, and bombed-out cities, this book is a moving reminder of the material and moral devastation left behind by Nazi Germany. -Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Demonstrates how perspective plays a key role, not only in photography, but in questions of mastering Germany's past as well. [I]nnovative and fascinating. -Robert C. Holub, University of California-Berkeley After half a century, Germany's coming to terms with Nazism remains a subject of debate. This investigation of the photographic record shows that such ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253220431
SKU
V9780253220431
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About Dagmar Barnouw
D.B. is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, and author of Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 1988), Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience (1990), Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer (1994), Germany 1945 Views of War and Violence (Indiana University Press, 1997, Naipaul's Strangers (Indiana ... Read more
Reviews for Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence
[Barnouw's] work shows that perspective plays a key role both in photography and in trying to master Germany's past. [F]ascinating.
Library Journal
[Barnouw's] thoughtful analysis of a large assortment of photographs . . . allows Barnouw to look at how and not just what people saw, and to bring that perspective into conversation with the historical debates about ... Read more
Library Journal
[Barnouw's] thoughtful analysis of a large assortment of photographs . . . allows Barnouw to look at how and not just what people saw, and to bring that perspective into conversation with the historical debates about ... Read more