Physical Description
xi, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe / Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann
Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II : can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? / Alice Förster and Birgit Beck
Between pain and silence : remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 / Sabine Behrenbeck
Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews : the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s / Ido de Haan
Trauma, memory, and motherhood : Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann
Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 / Andrea Petö
"Going home" : the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war / Joanna Bourke
Desperately seeking normality : sex and marriage in the wake of the war / Dagmar Herzog
Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture / Pat Thane
Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s / Michael Wildt
"Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire" : ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe / Damion Van Melis
The nationalization of victimhood : selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 / Pieter Lagrou
Italy after fascism : the predicament of dominant narratives / Donald Sassoon
The politics of post-fascist aesthetics : 1950s West and East German industrial design / Paul Betts
Dissonance, normality, and the historical method : why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? / Alon Confino.
Other Authors/Editors
Bessel, Richard.
Schumann, Dirk.
ISBN
0521804132
0521009227 (pbk.)
Notes
"This collection of essays has its origins with a conference that we organized in October 1998 at the IBZ Schloss Gimborn at Marienheide, Germany"--P. xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
