The discursive construction of history : remembering the Wehrmacht's war of annihilation / edited by Hannes Heer ... [and others] ; translated from the German by Steven Fligelstone.

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