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In the House of the Hangman
Jeffrey K. Olick
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Description for In the House of the Hangman
Hardcover. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity without irrevocably damning its idea and character as a whole. This book chronicles this delicate process, exploring key debates about the Nazi past and German future during the later years of World War II and its aftermath. Num Pages: 392 pages, 17halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted Germany's entire population and thus discredited the nation's history and culture. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials and German thinkers faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity that accounted for National Socialism without irrevocably damning the idea and character of Germany as a whole. "In the House of the Hangman" ... Read more
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted Germany's entire population and thus discredited the nation's history and culture. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials and German thinkers faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity that accounted for National Socialism without irrevocably damning the idea and character of Germany as a whole. "In the House of the Hangman" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226626383
SKU
V9780226626383
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About Jeffrey K. Olick
Jeffrey K. Olick is associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for In the House of the Hangman
"In the House of the Hangman is a moral drama that shows how postwar German officials tried to defend the dignity of the state and its citizens against the stigma of National Socialism and the Holocaust during the aftermath of World War II. This is a brilliant book that radically rejects reductive statements about the construction of memory and the ... Read more