Physical Description
ix, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction : German victimhood at the turn of the millennium / Bill Niven
The politics of the past in the 1950s : rhetorics and victimization in East and West Germany ; Victims in uniform : West German combat movies from the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller
Taboo or tradition? The 'Germans as victims' theme in West Germany until the early 1990s / Ruth Wittlinger
The continually suffering nation? Cinematic representations of German victimhood / Paul Cooke
The birth of the collective from the spirit of empathy : from the "historians' dispute" to German suffering / Helmut Schmitz
The GDR and memory of the bombing of Dresden / Bill Niven
Victims of the Berlin Wall / Pertti Ahonen
The victims of totalitarianism and the centrality of Nazi genocide : continuity and change in German commemorative politics / Andrew H. Beattie
Representations of German wartime suffering in recent fiction / Stuart Taberner
Air war legacies : from Dresden to Baghdad / Andreas Huyssen
From the margins to the centre? The discourse on expellees and victimhood in Germany / Karoline von Oppen and Stefan Wolff
On taboos, traumas and other myths : why the debate about German victims of the Second World War is not a historians' controversy / Stefan Berger.
Other Authors/Editors
Niven, William John, 1956-
ISBN
1403990425
9781403990426 (hbk)
1403990433 (pbk)
9781403990433 (pbk)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-282) and index.
Introduction : German victimhood at the turn of the millennium / Bill Niven -- The politics of the past in the 1950s : rhetorics and victimization in East and West Germany ; Victims in uniform : West German combat movies from the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller -- Taboo or tradition? The 'Germans as victims' theme in West Germany until the early 1990s / Ruth Wittlinger -- The continually suffering nation? Cinematic representations of German victimhood / Paul Cooke -- The birth of the collective from the spirit of empathy : from the "historians' dispute" to German suffering / Helmut Schmitz -- The GDR and memory of the bombing of Dresden / Bill Niven -- Victims of the Berlin Wall / Pertti Ahonen -- The victims of totalitarianism and the centrality of Nazi genocide : continuity and change in German commemorative politics / Andrew H. Beattie -- Representations of German wartime suffering in recent fiction / Stuart Taberner -- Air war legacies : from Dresden to Baghdad / Andreas Huyssen -- From the margins to the centre? The discourse on expellees and victimhood in Germany / Karoline von Oppen and Stefan Wolff -- On taboos, traumas and other myths : why the debate about German victims of the Second World War is not a historians' controversy / Stefan Berger.
