| Description |
xii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New studies in European history |
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New studies in European history.
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| Contents |
Great Britain defeated : between resistance and collaboration -- The United States and the dilemmas of military intervention -- Germany's wartime triumph : from dystopia to normalcy -- Other nations : a dissenting view -- The fugitive Führer and the search for justice -- The world without Hitler : better or worse? -- Hypothetical holocausts and the mistrust of memory |
| Summary |
"Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated in recent years within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays that have appeared in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany since 1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representations of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reactions to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalization of the Nazi past in Western memory."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-509) and index |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- In literature.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- In motion pictures.
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Imaginary histories.
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National socialism in literature.
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National socialism in motion pictures.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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Mass media and history.
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Imaginary histories -- History and criticism.
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Imaginary histories -- History.
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Collective memory.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
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Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| LC no. |
2005047511 |
| ISBN |
0521847060 |
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9780521847063 |
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9781107402751 |
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1107402751 |
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