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War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany

War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany

Paperback

General European History

ISBN10: 0520239105
ISBN13: 9780520239104
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 18 2003
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.86 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of forgetting or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the selective remembering that took place among West Germans during the postwar years: in particular, they remembered crimes committed against Germans, crimes that--according to some contemporary accounts--were comparable to the crimes of Germans against Jews. Moeller draws on a wide range of U.S. and German government documents, political debates, film archives, letters, oral histories, and newspaper accounts.

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