Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945
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Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945

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Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945

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This volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discourse on 1933 – 1945. An interdisplicinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social psychology, film studies, history, and cultural studies.
Themes include transgenerational memory and remembrance, the air war and German literature, commemoration and silences, transnational reconciliation, and historical consciousness in the German present. The collected essays make clear that as the current discourse contributes toward an historically informed, differentiated understanding of individuals' roles in the Third Reich and World War Two, victim and perpetrator identities cannot be defined as exclusive from one another. The discourse emphasizes personal over collective experience and answers questions of responsibility and guilt on the individual level.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110897470
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
German Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction:
  3. History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945
  4. Transgenerational Memory
  5. Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature
  6. „Ein Fressen fĂŒr mein MG“: The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders
  7. Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen’s Lena and Judith Kuckart’s Lenas Liebe
  8. Air War and German Literature
  9. To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature
  10. The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War
  11. Writing Dresden Across the Generations
  12. Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance
  13. Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann’s Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History
  14. A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara
  15. The „Different“ Holocaust Memorial in Berlin’s Bayerisches Viertel: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator/Victim Relationships
  16. Transnational Reconciliation
  17. Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter HÀrtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig
  18. Acknowledging Each Other As Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation
  19. Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk
  20. Historical Consciousness and the German Present
  21. The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchilren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers’ Past
  22. The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers
  23. Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification
  24. Coming to Terms with VergangenheitsbewÀltigung. Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness
  25. Notes on Contributors
  26. Index of Names