A Nation of victims? : representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present / / edited by Helmut Schmitz.

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Superior document:German monitor, no. 67
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:German monitor ; no. 67.
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Physical Description:265 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the return of wartime suffering in contemporary German memory culture, literature, and film / Helmut Schmitz
  • Germans in the Lager : reports and narratives about imprisonment in post-war Allied internment camps / Gregor Streim
  • "Die, von denen man erzahlt hat, dass sie die kleinen Kinder schlachten" : deutsche Leiderfahrung und Bilder von Juden in der deutschen Kultur nach 1945 : zu einigen Texten Wolfgang Weyrauchs / Hans-Joachim Hahn
  • The representation of Wehrmacht soldiers as victims in post-war German film : Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? and Der Arzt von Stalingrad / Helen Wolfenden
  • The German myth of a victim nation : (re-)presenting Germans as victims in the new debate on their flight and explusion from Eastern Europe / Samuel Salzborn
  • Implicit equations in constructions of German suffering / Bill Niven
  • Dresden and Hamburg : official memory and commemoration of the victims of Allied air raids in the two Germanies / Gilad Margalit
  • Regarding and imagining : contrived immediacy of the Allied bombing campaign in photography, novel, and historiography / Heinz-Peter Preusser
  • Lost in translations? : the discourse of "german suffering" and W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Annette Seidel Arpaci
  • Wahrheit und Erinnerung : die Spuren des Jahres 1945 in Texten von Christa Wolf / Odile Jansen
  • Historicism, sentimentality, and the problem of empathy : Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders in the context of recent representations of German suffering / Helmut Schmitz
  • Literary representations in contemporary German fiction of the expulsions of Germans from the east in 1945 / Stuart Taberner
  • Der Untergang (2004) : victims, perpetrators, and the continuing fascination of fascism / Paul Cooke.