Bas von Benda-Beckmann

German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities

The Contested Air War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at whether the history of the air war forms a counternarrative against the idea of German collective guilt.

Produktdetails

• War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9789089647818
• ISBN-10: 9089647813
• Artikelnr.: 41630259

Autorenporträt

Bas von Benda-Beckmann is affiliated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Putting the Allies on trial Historical accounts of the Allied air war in the early Federal Republic
1945-1970
Chapter 2 Dresden and the Cold War: East-West Debates on the Bombing of Dresden
1945-1970
Chapter 3 A Past becomes History The professionalizing of military historiography of the air war in the Federal Republic since the 1970s
Chapter 4 Imperialist Air War East German historiography and the work of Olaf Groehler
1965-1995
Chapter 5 Breaking Taboos : Jörg Friedrich and the Rediscovery of the Allied Bombings in the United Germany
Conclusion: The Allied bombings as a German catastrophe
Abbreviations
Bibliography