Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II, Gilad Margalit (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), 404 pp., paperback, 30.00
The politics of memory in post–World War II Germany—West, East, and reunified—has received intensive scholarly and popular media attention in the past three decades. Yet interpretative debates about the Holocaust, the suffering of Germans, and their responsibility for war crimes and crimes against h...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 162-164 |
| Review of: | Guilt, suffering, and memory (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univ. Press, 2010) (Nolan, Mary)
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| Summary: | The politics of memory in post–World War II Germany—West, East, and reunified—has received intensive scholarly and popular media attention in the past three decades. Yet interpretative debates about the Holocaust, the suffering of Germans, and their responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity continue. Gilad Margalit's comprehensive exploration of how Germany viewed its own wartime dead provides new evidence about German attitudes and stresses Germans' primary focus on their own suffering and their repeated failure to come to terms with the past appropriately., The Allies' encouragement of Germans to acknowledge guilt and responsibility was officially (if reluctantly) accepted. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct015 |