Physical Description
x, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
How the Germans learned to wage war : on the question of killing in the First and Second World Wars / Michael Geyer
The shadow of death in Germany at the end of the Second World War / Richard Bessel
Reburying and rebuilding : reflecting on proper burial in Berlin after "zero hour" / Monica A. Black
Fanning the flames : cremation in late imperial and Weimar Germany / Simone Ameskamp
Disposing of the dead in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Felix Robin Schulz
Death at the Munich Olympics / Kay Schiller
When cold warriors die : the state funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht / Paul Betts
A common experience of death : commemorating the German-Jewish soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923 / Tim Grady
Laughing about death? : "German humor" in the two world wars / Martina Kessel
Death, spiritual solace, and afterlife : between Nazism and religion / Alon Confino
Yizkor! : commemoration of the dead by Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany / Gabriel N. Finder
The imagination of disaster : death and survival in postwar West Germany / Svenja Goltermann
European melancholy and the inability to listen : schald, politics, and death / Daniel Steuer
A cemetery in Berlin / Peter Fritzsche.
Other Authors/Editors
Confino, Alon.
Betts, Paul,
Schumann, Dirk.
ISBN
9781845453978
1845453972 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-321) and index.
