Nearly sixty years after the defeat of Nazism, some in Germany now feel that the Germans were the victims--not least of relentless attempts to remind them of past crimes. This is the first examination of the shift in the culture of memory away from a focus on German perpetration, and towards one on German suffering. Students of German history, politics and culture will find this contextualization of current victim discourse within a wider historical framework invaluable.
Nearly sixty years after the defeat of Nazism, some in Germany now feel that the Germans were the victims--not least of relentless attempts to remind them of past crimes. This is the first examination of the shift in the culture of memory away from a focus on German perpetration, and towards one on German suffering. Students of German history, politics and culture will find this contextualization of current victim discourse within a wider historical framework invaluable.
Notes on the Contributors Maps Introduction; B.Niven The Politics of the Past in the 1950s: Rhetorics of Victimization in East and West Germany; R.G.Moeller Victims in Uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s; R.G.Moeller Taboo or Tradition? The 'Germans as Victims' Theme in West Germany until the Early 1990s; R.Wittlinger The Continually Suffering Nation? Cinematic Representations of German Victimhood; P.Cooke The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy: From the 'Historians' Dispute' to German Suffering; H.Schmitz The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden; B.Niven Victims of the Berlin Wall; P.Ahonen The Victims of Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change in German Commemorative Politics; A.H.Beattie Representations of German Wartime Suffering in Recent Fiction; S.Taberner Air War Legacies: From Dresden to Baghdad; A.Huyssen From the Margins to the Centre? The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany; K.von Oppen & S.Wolff On Taboos, Traumas and Other Myths: Why the Debate About German Victims of the Second World War is not a Historians' Controversy; S.Berger Chronology of Victimhood Select Bibliography Index.
Notes on the Contributors Maps Introduction; B.Niven The Politics of the Past in the 1950s: Rhetorics of Victimization in East and West Germany; R.G.Moeller Victims in Uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s; R.G.Moeller Taboo or Tradition? The 'Germans as Victims' Theme in West Germany until the Early 1990s; R.Wittlinger The Continually Suffering Nation? Cinematic Representations of German Victimhood; P.Cooke The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy: From the 'Historians' Dispute' to German Suffering; H.Schmitz The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden; B.Niven Victims of the Berlin Wall; P.Ahonen The Victims of Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change in German Commemorative Politics; A.H.Beattie Representations of German Wartime Suffering in Recent Fiction; S.Taberner Air War Legacies: From Dresden to Baghdad; A.Huyssen From the Margins to the Centre? The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany; K.von Oppen & S.Wolff On Taboos, Traumas and Other Myths: Why the Debate About German Victims of the Second World War is not a Historians' Controversy; S.Berger Chronology of Victimhood Select Bibliography Index.
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