- Format
- Book
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- Locale
- Great Britain
France
Germany
- Contents
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When Europe was new: liberation and the making of the post-war era / Geoff Eley
"That rubble heap near Potsdam": pre-war visions and early post-war urban development in Berlin / Monica Riera
Creating "a nation of resisters"? Improving French self-image, 1944-6 / Simon Kitson
Dad's Army, the home guard and the memory of the British war effort / Penny Summerfield
An awkward sense of grief: German war remembrance and the role of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge / Gerd Knischewski
France: a people's history, 1944-6 / Hilary Footitt
French Catholics and the liberation: political and religious values / Emmanuel Godin
Confronting Nazi attrocities at the end of the war: a transnational perspective / Donald Bloxham
Instrumentalisation, marginalisation, re-evaluation: flight and explusion after the Second World War in post-war German collective memory / Rainer Schulze
The Church of England and the German past, present and future 1944-5: a case study in the international search for a "usable past" / Tom Lawson
Victims or enemies? Italians, refugee Jews and the reworking of internment narratives in post-war Britain / Wendy Ugolini and Gavin Schaffer
Belsen for beginners: the Holocaust in British heritage / Tony Kushner
France and her African empire: the Second World War and the colonial imagination / Tony Chafer and Martin Evans.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Riera, Monica, 1960-
Schaffer, Gavin, 1976-
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
When Europe was new: liberation and the making of the post-war era / Geoff Eley -- "That rubble heap near Potsdam": pre-war visions and early post-war urban development in Berlin / Monica Riera -- Creating "a nation of resisters"? Improving French self-image, 1944-6 / Simon Kitson -- Dad's Army, the home guard and the memory of the British war effort / Penny Summerfield -- An awkward sense of grief: German war remembrance and the role of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge / Gerd Knischewski -- France: a people's history, 1944-6 / Hilary Footitt -- French Catholics and the liberation: political and religious values / Emmanuel Godin -- Confronting Nazi attrocities at the end of the war: a transnational perspective / Donald Bloxham -- Instrumentalisation, marginalisation, re-evaluation: flight and explusion after the Second World War in post-war German collective memory / Rainer Schulze -- The Church of England and the German past, present and future 1944-5: a case study in the international search for a "usable past" / Tom Lawson -- Victims or enemies? Italians, refugee Jews and the reworking of internment narratives in post-war Britain / Wendy Ugolini and Gavin Schaffer -- Belsen for beginners: the Holocaust in British heritage / Tony Kushner -- France and her African empire: the Second World War and the colonial imagination / Tony Chafer and Martin Evans.
