Overview
- Uniform Title
- Wie Geschichte gemacht wird. English.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Preface with Acknowledgements
Preface to the First Edition: 'How History Is Made' - The Origins and Aims of the Project
Introduction: Collective Memory, National Narratives and The Politics of the Past
PART 1: THE WEHRMACHT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE MEMORY OF THE WAR GENERATION
The Crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War
The Holocaust as Recounted in Wehrmacht Soldiers' Letters from the Front
The Attitudes and Beliefs of Austrian Soldiers in the German Wehrmacht 1938-45
'That is What is So Terrible - That Millions of Soldiers Were There, Yet Today They All Claim They Never Saw a Thing'
PART 2: THE WEHRMACHT IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY AFTER 1945
Defining the Victims of Nazism
The Myth of the 'Untainted Wehrmacht'
'The Appalling Toll in Austrian Lives...'
All that Remains of the Second World War
PART 3: REACTION TO THE WEHRMACHT EXHIBITIONS
Crime Scene: Wehrmacht Exhibition
The Head of Medusa
Interpreting the 'War of Annihilation' / H.Uhl - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-318) and index.
Preface with Acknowledgements -- Preface to the First Edition: 'How History Is Made' - The Origins and Aims of the Project -- Introduction: Collective Memory, National Narratives and The Politics of the Past -- PART 1: THE WEHRMACHT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE MEMORY OF THE WAR GENERATION -- The Crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War -- The Holocaust as Recounted in Wehrmacht Soldiers' Letters from the Front -- The Attitudes and Beliefs of Austrian Soldiers in the German Wehrmacht 1938-45 -- 'That is What is So Terrible - That Millions of Soldiers Were There, Yet Today They All Claim They Never Saw a Thing' -- PART 2: THE WEHRMACHT IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY AFTER 1945 -- Defining the Victims of Nazism -- The Myth of the 'Untainted Wehrmacht' -- 'The Appalling Toll in Austrian Lives...' -- All that Remains of the Second World War -- PART 3: REACTION TO THE WEHRMACHT EXHIBITIONS -- Crime Scene: Wehrmacht Exhibition -- The Head of Medusa -- Interpreting the 'War of Annihilation' / H.Uhl
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic version Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 0230013236
9780230013230 - Physical Description
- xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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