{"product_id":"guilt-suffering-and-memory-9780253221339","title":"Guilt Suffering and Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnresolved tensions in German postwar memorials\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . the best book of the year . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e -- Arnold Ages * National Jewish Post \u0026amp; Opinion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1985 Elie Wesel was featured on a television event during which he tried unsuccessfully as it happened, to persuade President Ronald Reagan not to visit the cemetery at Bitburg Germanv, because SS soldiers were also buried there alongwith members of the Whermacht.'The words die on my lips,' said Wiesel, in his impassioned plea,'your place is not there.' Gilad Margalit, a senior lecturer at Haifa University, reminds us in an essay, which I recommend unequivocally as the best book of the year, that President Reagan's dilemma began not in 1985 but 40 years before that in 1945 at the end of World War II. The author has reached this conclusion by a thorough study of German reactions to their loss as they were reflected over six decades to this day in the words of political leaders, memoirists, novelists clergymen, government spokesmen, propagandists and just plain folk. The author notes that in the immediate aftermath of defeat Germans experienced a culture of guilt, which they readily exhibited when the full story of the concentration camps, the murder of civilians, the annihilation of six million Jews and the atrocities visited upon 20 million Russians became known. . .\u003c\/p\u003e -- Arnold Ages * National Jewish Post \u0026amp; Opinion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . this marvellous book . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e -- Arnold Ages * Indiana Jewish Post \u0026amp; Opinion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . this finely calibrated study . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e -- Arnold Ages * National Jewish Post \u0026amp; Opinion (Kentucky Edition) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Provides] extensive coverage of the evolving treatment of this wide-ranging subject. March 2015\u003c\/p\u003e * German History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an ambitious and thought-provoking book. It presents a comprehensive overview of the ways Germans have remembered WorldWar II since 1945 and a forceful critique of what Margalit contends is the central narrative that has structured this memory work.Sept 2012\u003c\/p\u003e * Central European History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilad Margalit's comprehensive exploration of how Germany viewed its own wartime dead provides new evidence about German attitudes and stresses Germans' primary focus on their own suffering and their repeated failure to come to terms with the past appropriately.\u003c\/p\u003e * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[This book] make[s] important, original contributions. . . . Margalit's monograph is a useful and frequently insightful contribution.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilad Margalit's new book offers a comprehensive, forcefully argued, and insightful analysis of German memories of the Second World War after 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e * Jewish History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargalit bases his arguments on an impressive amount of original archival research, as well as analyses of relevant fiction, memorials, public debates, and the pivotal secondary literature. March 2012\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jenny Wustenberg * H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis well-translated book will be invaluable to scholars and students of German history and memory studies and is accessible to nonspecialists. Summing Up: Essential.October 2010, Vol. 48 No. 2\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA . . . perspective on the consequences of empire building comes from Israeli historian Gilad Margalit's meticulously documented Guilt, Suffering, and Memory.July\/August 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * ForeWord *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Coping with Guilt: The Germans and the Nazi Past \u003cbr\u003e2. Remembering National Suffering in World War II\u003cbr\u003e3. German Memory and Remembrance of the Dead from 1945 to the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e4. Memorial Days in West Germany and Their Metamorphosis, 1945-1946\u003cbr\u003e5. The Bombing of Germany's Cities and German Memory Politics, 1945-1989\u003cbr\u003e6. Flight and Expulsion in German Political Culture and Memory since 1945\u003cbr\u003e7. The Resurgence of the German Sense of Victimization since Reunification \u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400661180759,"sku":"9780253221339","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253221339.jpg?v=1730471233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/guilt-suffering-and-memory-9780253221339","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}