Coping with the past : Germany and Austria after 1945 / edited by Kathy Harms, Lutz R. Reuter, and Volker Dürr.

Papers presented at a conference held in May 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

Political anti-semitism in Germany : its rise and function / Iring Fetscher -- "The third Walpurgis night" and the consequences? : the current relevance of a polemical essay by Karl Kraus / Helmut Arntzen -- The great Austrian taboo : the repression of the civil war / Anton Pelinka -- Austria and the dear school of dame experience / William E. Wright -- The creation of history and the refusal of the past in the German Democratic Republic / Frank Trommler -- Necessity and vision in East German identity / C. Bradley Scharf -- Foundations of West German Democracy : corporatist patterns in the post-1945 democratization process / Diethelm Prowe -- The acceptance of democracy : intellectual and political culture in West Germany / Helmut Dubiel -- Moralist versus pragmatist? : Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass as political writers / Siegfried Mews -- Political and moral culture in West Germany : four decades of democratic reorganization and Vergangenheitsauseinandersetzung / Lutz R. Reuter -- Beyond Bitburg : the place of the "Jewish question" in German history after 1945 / Anson Rabinbach -- Coping with the past : the West German labor movement and the left / Andrei S. Markovits -- After the Holocaust : history and identity in West Germany / Moishe Postone -- The Germans and their past : history and political consciousness in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wolfgang J. Mommsen.