03312nam 22006375 450 991013612220332120230227165832.00-226-38652-X10.7208/9780226386522(CKB)3710000000914971(MiAaPQ)EBC4532287(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588537(DE-B1597)523107(OCoLC)961117081(DE-B1597)9780226386522(EXLCZ)99371000000091497120200424h20162016 fy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe sins of the fathers Germany, memory, method /Jeffrey K. OlickChicago :University of Chicago Press,2016.©20161 online resource (540 pages)Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningPreviously issued in print: 2016.0-226-38649-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Part 1. Introduction --Part 2. The Reliable Nation --Part 3. The Moral Nation --Part 4. The Normal Nation --Appendix --References --IndexNational identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over-the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the present. Yet denial and forgetting carry costs as well. Nowhere has this precarious balance been more potent, or important, than in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the devastation and atrocities of two world wars have weighed heavily in virtually every moment and aspect of political life. The Sins of the Fathers confronts that difficulty head-on, exploring the variety of ways that Germany's leaders since 1949 have attempted to meet this challenge, with a particular focus on how those approaches have changed over time. Jeffrey K. Olick asserts that other nations are looking to Germany as an example of how a society can confront a dark past-casting Germany as our model of difficult collective memory.Chicago studies in practices of meaning.Collective memoryGermany (West)HistoryNationalism and collective memoryGermany (West)Guilt and cultureGermany (West)Germany (West)HistoryGermany (West)Politics and government1945-1990Germany.Wold War I.World War II.collective guilt.collective memory.sociology.Collective memoryHistory.Nationalism and collective memoryGuilt and culture909.0943Olick Jeffrey K.1964-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1280509DE-B1597DE-B1597AzTeSBOOK9910136122203321The sins of the fathers3017146UNINA