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The tremendous challenge that Allied officials faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity without irrevocably damning its idea and character as a whole. This book chronicles this delicate process, exploring key debates about the Nazi past and German future during the later years of World War II and its aftermath.

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"In the House of the Hangman is a moral drama that shows how postwar German officials tried to defend the dignity of the state and its citizens against the stigma of National Socialism and the Holocaust during the aftermath of World War II. This is a brilliant book that radically rejects reductive statements about the construction of memory and the invention of the past by recognizing the complexity of the relations between history and human experience." - Barry Schwartz, University of Georgia"

In the House of the Hangman

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226626383, 978-0226626383
      ISBN10: 0226626385
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      Modern warfare Second World War

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The tremendous challenge that Allied officials faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a post-war German identity without irrevocably damning its idea and character as a whole. This book chronicles this delicate process, exploring key debates about the Nazi past and German future during the later years of World War II and its aftermath.

      Trade Review
      "In the House of the Hangman is a moral drama that shows how postwar German officials tried to defend the dignity of the state and its citizens against the stigma of National Socialism and the Holocaust during the aftermath of World War II. This is a brilliant book that radically rejects reductive statements about the construction of memory and the invention of the past by recognizing the complexity of the relations between history and human experience." - Barry Schwartz, University of Georgia"

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