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What has Germany made of its Nazi past? This book explores the legacy of the Nazi regime, exposing the workings of past beliefs and political interests, and how differently the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism.

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Multiple restorations and divided memory; German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow;East Berlin, 1928-1945; from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945; the Nuremberg interregnum - struggles for the recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949; purging 'cosmopolitanism' - the Jewish question in East Germany, 1949-1956; memory and policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker; the Nuremberg interregnum - divided memory in the western zones, 1945-1963; atonement, restitution, and justice delayed - West Germany, 1949-1963; politics and memory since the 1960s.

Divided Memory The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 31 March 1999
      ISBN-13 9780674213043
      978-0674213043
      ISBN-10 0674213041
      Also in:
      Far-right political ideologies and movements War crimes

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What has Germany made of its Nazi past? This book explores the legacy of the Nazi regime, exposing the workings of past beliefs and political interests, and how differently the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism.

      Table of Contents
      Multiple restorations and divided memory; German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow;East Berlin, 1928-1945; from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945; the Nuremberg interregnum - struggles for the recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949; purging 'cosmopolitanism' - the Jewish question in East Germany, 1949-1956; memory and policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker; the Nuremberg interregnum - divided memory in the western zones, 1945-1963; atonement, restitution, and justice delayed - West Germany, 1949-1963; politics and memory since the 1960s.

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