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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816379703321

Autore

Wolfgram Mark <1970->

Titolo

Getting history right : East and West German collective memories of the Holocaust and war / / Mark A. Wolfgram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, : Bucknell University Press, c2011

ISBN

9781611480078

1611480078

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Public opinion

World War, 1939-1945 - Public opinion

Collective memory - Germany

War and society - Germany

Collective memory - Germany (East)

Collective memory - Germany (West)

Popular culture - Germany (East)

Politics and culture - Germany (East)

Politics and culture - Germany (West)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: p. 260-263.

Nota di contenuto

Collective memory, politics, and culture -- Victims and perpetrators : the view from the East -- Victims and perpetrators : the view from the West -- Collaboration and resistance : blood and redemption -- Division and unity : a revolutionary people unites itself -- Defeat and liberation : ending the war -- Conclusion--Mourning, loss, and the difficulty of remembering -- Appendix: Charts and chart notes -- Filmography.

Sommario/riassunto

How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? 'Getting History Right' examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past;



and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the past shaped societal level discussions. These struggles over meaning and 'getting history right' are not only shaped by political power, but are also a source of symbolic power.