Between Mass Death and Individual Loss : : The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany / / ed. by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ameskamp, Simone,; Bessel, Richard,; Betts, Paul,; Black, Monica A.,; Confino, Alon,; Finder, Gabriel N.,; Fritzsche, Peter,; Geyer, Michael,; Goltermann, Svenja,; Grady, Tim,; Kessel, Martina,; Schiller, Kay,; Schulz, Felix Robin,; Steuer, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Betts, Paul,; Confino, Alon,; Schumann, Dirk,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction DEATH AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY Paul Betts, Alon Confino, and Dirk Schumann -- Part I BODIES -- Chapter 1 HOW THE GERMANS LEARNED TO WAGE WAR On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars -- Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF DEATH IN GERMANY AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- Chapter 3 REBURYING AND REBUILDING Reflecting on Proper Burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour” -- Part II DISPOSAL -- Chapter 4 FANNING THE FLAMES Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany -- Chapter 5 DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN EAST GERMANY, 1945–1990 -- Chapter 6 DEATH AT THE MUNICH OLYMPICS -- Chapter 7 WHEN COLD WARRIORS DIE Th e State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht -- Part III SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 8 A COMMON EXPERIENCE OF DEATH Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914–1923 -- Chapter 9 LAUGHING ABOUT DEATH? “GERMAN HUMOR” IN THE TWO WORLD WARS -- Chapter 10 DEATH, SPIRITUAL SOLACE, AND AFTERLIFE Between Nazism and Religion -- Chapter 11 YIZKOR! COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD BY JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS IN POSTWAR GERMANY -- Part IV RUINS -- Chapter 12 THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany -- Chapter 13 EUROPEAN MELANCHOLY AND THE INABILITY TO LISTEN Sebald, Politics, and Death -- Chapter 14 A CEMETERY IN BERLIN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX