Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War : : Narratives from Europe and East Asia / / ed. by Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, Daqing Yang, Randall Hansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Beer, Mathias,; Christophe, Barbara,; Florin, Moritz,; Hansen, Randall,; Hof, Tobias,; Loose, Ingo,; Orr, James,; Satoshi, Nakano,; Saupe, Achim,; Schwartz, Michael,; Voronina, Tatiana,; Wirsching, Andreas,; Yang, Daqing,; Zarusky, Jürgen,
• HerausgeberIn: Hansen, Randall,; Saupe, Achim,; Wirsching, Andreas,; Yang, Daqing,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 1 B&W illustration, 1 figure

The shadow of the Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession. None of these atrocities were new, but they all occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims’ histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events. Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War shows the trends towards a victim-centred collective memory and the role trends play in memory politics and public commemorative culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: War, Genocide, and Forced Migration -- PART 1 Methodological and Theoretical Approaches -- 1 From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory -- 2 Victim Identities and the Dynamics of “Authentication”: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment -- PART 2 Victims of Genocide and Massacres -- 3 Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity -- 4 History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” -- 5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? -- 6 The “Death of Manila” in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration -- PART 3 War Victims -- 7 Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War -- 8 Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War -- 9 Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans -- PART 4 Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations -- 10 In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War -- 11 Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian- Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922–1954 -- 12 Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechen and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia -- 13 East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War– Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project -- Contributors -- Index