War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany
Title | War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2001 |
Authors | Moeller, Robert G. |
Number of Pages | 329 |
Publisher | University of California Press |
City | London |
Abstract | 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. Article published under same title by Moeller in 1996. |
URL | https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520239104/war-stories |
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