Cantitate/Preț
Produs

War and German Memory

Autor K Michael Prince
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2009
Germans often claim that we have learned the lessons of our history. But what, precisely, are the lessons they have drawn from their Nazi-era past? What experiences from that time continue to hold significant meaning for Germans today, and how have those experiences shaped postwar German cultural identity? Though Germans have come to recognize the evils of Nazism, for them, its primary evil derived from the war it unleashed and the hardships, death, and destruction that the war wrought on the Germans themselves, and less from the losses and suffering it caused others. Recent public discussion about the Allied bombing campaign against Germany, the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe, and other German experiences during and following the Second World War have revealed what some see as an emerging tendency among Germans to perceive themselves as much the victims of wartime acts as other peoples. Through a survey of postwar literature, film, and other popular media, as well as public commemorations and other means of memorializing and discussing the past, K. Michael Prince demonstrates that the theme of German suffering has been an abiding and even overriding element of postwar German historical memory and a chief component of German cultural identity. While academics have focused their attention on Nazism, atrocity and genocide, and while Germany's official ceremonies and other acts of public memory have been similarly directed, it was the wartime sufferings of average Germans that have remained at the core of German historical consciousness, influencing their attitudes toward war in general and shaping Germany's role in world affairs.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 67008 lei

Preț vechi: 87024 lei
-23%

Puncte Express: 1005

Preț estimativ în valută:
11847 13784$ 10250£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 23 aprilie-07 mai


Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739139431
ISBN-10: 0739139436
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing