Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War : : Narratives from Europe and East Asia /

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

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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 1 B&W illustration, 1 figure
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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

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