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050 00 HM1033 |b.O293 2016
100 1  Olick, Jeffrey K., |d1964- |eauthor.
245 14 The sins of the fathers : |bGermany, memory, method / |cJeffrey K. Olick.
264  1 Chicago : |bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2016.
300    x, 517 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm.
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
490 1  Chicago studies in practices of meaning
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-495) and index.
505 00  |gPart 1: Introduction. |tPlacing memory in Germany ; |tSociology of collective memory ; |tPrologues: the origins of West German memory -- |gPart 2: The reliable nation. |tBonn is not Weimar ; |tExpiation and explanation ; |tGermany in the West ; |tReturn of the repressed ; |tReliable nation -- |gPart 3: The moral nation. |tSeeds of change ; |tGrand coalition and the wider world ; |tSocial-liberal guilt ; |tMoral nation -- |gPart 4: The normal nation. |tWest Germany's normal problems ; |tNew conservatism ; |tPolitics of history ; |tBeyond Bitburg ; |tNormal nation -- |gPart 5: Conclusions. |tEpilogues: Berlin is not Bonn ; |tHistory, memory, and temporality -- |gAppendix.
520 8  National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the present. Yet denial and forgetting carry costs as well. Nowhere has this precarious balance been more potent, or important, than in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the devastation and atrocities of two world wars have weighed heavily in virtually every moment and aspect of political life. The Sins of the Fathers confronts that difficulty head-on, exploring the variety of ways that Germany's leaders since 1949 have attempted to meet this challenge, with a particular focus on how those approaches have changed over time. Jeffrey K. Olick asserts that other nations are looking to Germany as an example of how a society can confront a dark past casting Germany as our model of difficult collective memory.
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650  0 Collective memory |zGermany (West) |xHistory.
650  0 Nationalism and collective memory |zGermany (West)
650  0 Guilt and culture |zGermany (West)
651  0 Germany (West) |xHistory.
651  0 Germany (West) |xPolitics and government |y1945-1990.
611 27 BMBF-Statusseminar. |2gnd |0(DE-588)1092055606
648  7 1945-1990 |2fast
830  0 Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
852 0   |bstacks |hHM1033 |i.O293 2016