{"product_id":"germany-1945-9780253220431","title":"Germany 1945","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotographers from the US Army's Signal Corps were with the armies that drove back Hitler's troops. Soon photos of death camps and starving POWs shocked the home front, giving ample evidence of Nazi brutality. This work argues that the photographs tell a more complex story and hold many clues for a better understanding of the recent German past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Barnouw's] work shows that perspective plays a key role both in photography and in trying to master Germany's past. [F]ascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany 1945\u003c\/i\u003e is best seen as a contribution to [the] debate . . . about the uniqueness or otherwise of Nazi crimes, and the related questions of collective responsibility for those crimes, and the need to go on remembering them.\u003c\/p\u003e * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eResist the impulse to 'historicize' the Holocaust . . . and you run the danger of sacralizing it. Barnouw's effort to grapple with these dilemmas is provocative, brilliant, and unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e * Washington Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany 1945\u003c\/i\u003e contributes a vigorous voice to the expanding chorus of scholars who have called for increased examination of the immediate postwar years. \u003c\/p\u003e * H-NET Reviews Humanities \u0026amp; Social Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Barnouw's] thoughtful analysis of a large assortment of photographs . . . allows Barnouw to look at how and not just what people saw, and to bring that perspective into conversation with the historical debates about the war's end in Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Contemporary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Views of War and Violence\u003cbr\u003e1. Views of the Past: Memory and Historical Evidence\u003cbr\u003e2. To Make Them See: Photography, Identification, and Identity\u003cbr\u003e3. The Quality of Citory and the \"German Question\": The Signal Corps Photography Album and Life Photo-Essays\u003cbr\u003e4. What They Saw: Germany 1945 and Allied Photographers\u003cbr\u003e5. Words and Images: German Questions\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400658985303,"sku":"9780253220431","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germany-1945-9780253220431","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}