The war in the empty air : victims, perpetrators, and postwar Germans / Dagmar Barnouw.

Publication | Library Call Number: DD256.48 .B37 2005

Physical Description: xiv, 303 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The loss of history in postwar German memory
Historical memory and the uses of remorse
"Their monstrous past" : German wartime fictions
Censored memories : "are the Germans victims or perpetrators?"
The war in the empty air : a moral history of destruction
No end to "Auschwitz" : historical or redemptive memory
This side of good and evil : a German story.
ISBN: 0253346517
0253330467 (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-295) and index.

The loss of history in postwar German memory -- Historical memory and the uses of remorse -- "Their monstrous past" : German wartime fictions -- Censored memories : "are the Germans victims or perpetrators?" -- The war in the empty air : a moral history of destruction -- No end to "Auschwitz" : historical or redemptive memory -- This side of good and evil : a German story.
Subjects: Memory--Social aspects--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Historiography.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Historiography.
Photography in historiography.
National characteristics, German.
History--Psychological aspects.
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