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

Robert G. Moeller

Published by University of California Press 2001

War Stories

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

Robert G. Moeller
Edited by: Robert G. Moeller

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520930315

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About this book

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
CHAPTER ONE Listening to War Stories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER TWO Accounting for the Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER THREE Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the "Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
CHAPTER FOUR Prisoners of Public Memory "Homecoming 1955" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
CHAPTER FIVE Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino" Expellees and POWs at the Movies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

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Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 342
Illustrations
- Other: 42 b/w photographs
Keywords: Europe; History; General

eBook

Published: August 31, 2001
ISBN: 9780520930315

Paperback

Planned Publication: August 31, 2001
ISBN: 9780520239104