Legacies of Stalingrad: Remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945, Christina Morina (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 312 pp., illus., hardcover, 90.00, e-book available
Professor Morina has written a sophisticated study of World War II, and of how that memory shaped public discourse and eventually political policy: “the public use of history.” This memory centers on the Eastern Front, where nearly 75 percent of German losses occurred (as opposed to just under 20 pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 496-499 |
| Review of: | Legacies of Stalingrad (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011) (Smelser, Ronald)
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| Summary: | Professor Morina has written a sophisticated study of World War II, and of how that memory shaped public discourse and eventually political policy: “the public use of history.” This memory centers on the Eastern Front, where nearly 75 percent of German losses occurred (as opposed to just under 20 percent in the West and just under 10 on other fronts). As the study's title suggests, for both sides the most important focus of memory of the war was Stalingrad, a symbol of German defeat and Soviet victory., Not surprisingly, the discussion was very different in the two Germanys. In East Germany the leaders cast a positive image of the Soviet Union. German Communists shared in the victory over fascism, and used it to lay the foundations of a socialist state allied to the USSR. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs074 |