"Getting History Right" East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

ISBN-10: 1611485223

ISBN-13: 9781611485226

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mark A. Wolfgram

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How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and newspapers. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past; and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the past shaped societal level discussions. These struggles over meaning and "getting history right" are…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 5/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.91" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Collective Memory, Politics, and Culture



Victims and Perpetrators: The View from the East



Victims and Perpetrators: The View from the West



Collaboration and Resistance: Blood and Redemption



Division and Unity: A Revolutionary People Unites Itself



Defeat and Liberation: Ending the War



Conclusion-Mourning, Loss, and the Difficulty of Remembering


Appendix: Charts and Chart Notes


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index