Narratives of trauma : discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective / edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı.

Papers from a conference held at Leeds University in summer 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Killing us in a slow way instead of doing it with gas' : the German Catholic discourse of 'suffering', 1946-59 / Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- Imperialist air war. East German academic research and memory politics reflected in the work of Olaf Groehler / Bas von Benda-Beckmann -- Hitler's legacy in concrete and steel : memory and civil defence bunkers in West Germany, 1950-65 / Nicholas J. Steneck -- Expressions of memory in Pforzheim, a city hit by air war / Christian Groh -- 'Den Toten der ostdeutschen Heimat' : local expellee monuments and the construction of post-war narratives / Jeffrey Luppes -- Das Trauma der deutschen Kriegskinder zwischen nationaler und europäischer Erinnerung : kritische Anmerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Wandel der Erinnerungskultur / Michael Heinlein -- Double visions : queer feminity and Holocaust film / Cathy S. Gelbin -- Foundational traumas : on a figure of thought in recent German literature on wartime suffering / Helmut Schmitz -- German victimhood discourse in comparative perspective / Bill Niven -- Holland and the German point of view : on the Dutch reactions to German victimhood / Krijn Thijs -- The miracle workers : 'German suffering', Israeli masculinity, and the feminised/queered nation as redemptive in Eytan Fox's Walk On Water / Annette Seidel-Arpaci.

English, with one contribution in German.