RT Book
T1 German intellectuals and the Nazi past
A1 Moses, A. Dirk 1967-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883395045
AB This 2007 book analyzes how West German intellectuals debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country. Rather than proceeding event by event, it highlights the underlying issues at stake: the question of a stigmatized nation and the polarized reactions to it that structured German discussion and memory of the Nazi past. Paying close attention to the generation of German intellectuals born during the Weimar Republic - the forty-fivers - this book traces the drama of sixty years of bitter public struggle about the meaning of the past: did the Holocaust forever stain German identity so that Germans could never again enjoy their national emotions like other nationalities? Or were Germans unfairly singled out for the crimes of their ancestors? By explaining how the perceived pollution of family and national life affected German intellectuals, the book shows that public debates cannot be isolated from the political emotions of the intelligentsia
OP 293
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN DD256.5
SN 978-0-511-51190-5
K1 National Socialism : Psychological aspects
K1 National characteristics, German
K1 Intellectuals : Germany (West) : Attitudes
K1 Collective Memory : Germany (West)
K1 Collective memory ; Germany (West)
K1 Intellectuals ; Germany (West) ; Attitudes
K1 National socialism ; Psychological aspects
K1 Germany ; History ; 1933-1945
K1 Germany : History : 1933-1945
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511511905