Coping with the Nazi Past : : West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 / / ed. by Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis.

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Studies in German History ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Critical Memory and Civil Society
  • 2. The Return of the Images
  • 3. Explanation, Dissociation, Apologia
  • 4. The “Comprehensive Investigative Proceedings—France”
  • 5. West Germany and Compensation for National Socialist Expropriation
  • 6. The Modernization of West German Police
  • 7. West German Society and Foreigners in the 1960s
  • 8. The West German Public Health System and the Legacy of Nazism
  • 9. Don’t Look Back in Anger
  • 10. The Sexual Revolution and the Legacies of the Nazi Past
  • 11. The German New Left and National Socialism
  • 12. Public Demonstrations of the 1960s
  • 13. New Leftists and West Germany
  • 14. Conservative Intellectuals and the Debate over National Socialism and the Holocaust in the 1960s
  • 15. Catholic Student Fraternities, the National Socialist Past, and the Student Movement
  • 16. Turning Away from the Past
  • 17. Germany’s PR Man
  • 18. Auschwitz and the Nuclear Sonderweg
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index