In pursuit of German memory : history, television, and politics after Auschwitz / Wulf Kansteiner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-427) and index.

The vagaries of collective symbolic guilt -- Finding meaning in memory : a methodological critique of collective memory studies -- The rise and fall of metaphor : German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust -- Between politics and memory : the Historians' Debate and West German historical culture of the 1980s -- Narrative invention and historicization : how modern was the Nazi genocide? -- Entertaining catastrophe : the reinvention of the Holocaust in the television of the Federal Republic of Germany -- Nazis, viewers, and statistics : television history, television audience research, and collective memory in West Germany -- The radicalization of German memory in the age of its commercial reproduction : Hitler and the Third Reich in the TV documentaries of Guido Knopp -- High politics and communicative memory : collective guilt management in the Adenauer era -- The long good-bye of the war generations and the search for liberal politics of memory : from Adenauer to Schmidt -- Fighting about the future of the past : the difficult process of cultural memory production in the Kohl era -- Normalization : the Europeanization of German political memory since the 1990s -- Conclusion : toward a social geography of collective memory.