Facing the Nazi Past United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

Name: Facing the Nazi Past United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
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ISBN: 9780415262811

ISBN-10: 041526281X

ISBN-13: 9780415262811

Edition: 4th 2001

Authors: Bill Niven

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The Berlin Wall crumbled amidst fears that a united Germany might seek too quickly to put its Nazi past behind it, inaugurating a new era of triumphant nationalism. What happened instead was surprising: behind the flag-waving arose a more public, thoughtful, and realistic scrutiny of the country's horrific legacy than ever before seen in postwar Germany.Facing the Nazi Pastshows how the readiness of a newly united people, combined with an explosion of media events, gave birth to a collaborative, determined effort to reexamine and accept the past. The reunification of Germany brought an end to a certain way of looking at the Third Reich. As long as Germany was divided, guilt for National…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. His recent publications include The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction and Propaganda (Camden House, 2007; German edition, 2009), and Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (edited with Chloe Paver, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).



List of plates


Acknowledgments


Chronology 1933-2000


Introduction: the inclusive picture



Concentration camp memorial sites



The 'double past'



Resistance



8 May 1945 in political discourse



Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Victor Klemperer



The crimes of the Wehrmacht



The Walser-Bubis debate



The Holocaust Memorial



The past in the present


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Index