The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans, Dagmar Barnouw (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), xiv + 314 pp., 29.95
Dagmar Barnouw contends that the experiences of German civilians in World War II have been systematically censored by the Allies' imposition of collective guilt for Nazi crimes. Over the years, the Allies have supposedly seen only innocent victims and monstrous perpetrators, with only a small n...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-129 |
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| Summary: | Dagmar Barnouw contends that the experiences of German civilians in World War II have been systematically censored by the Allies' imposition of collective guilt for Nazi crimes. Over the years, the Allies have supposedly seen only innocent victims and monstrous perpetrators, with only a small number of “good Germans” to counterbalance the mostly “bad” Germans. Germans have been forced to “remember their past selectively as pure Nazi Evil” (p. xi). Even the Holocaust memorial in Berlin is “meant” to “keep all other memories out” (p. 59). In this tendentious work, Barnouw appeals to historians to challenge “the still accumulating power of Jewish memory discourses” (p. 64)., At the heart of the book is the air war, which the author experienced as a child in Dresden. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm011 |