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Author Gassert, Philipp

Title Coping With The Nazi Past : West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Series Studies in German History
Studies in German history.
Contents Coping with the Nazi Past; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. CRITICAL MEMORY AND CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER 2. THE RETURN OF THE IMAGES; CHAPTER 3. EXPLANATION, DISSOCIATION, APOLOGIA; CHAPTER 4. THE "COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATIVE PROCEEDINGS-FRANCE"; CHAPTER 5. WEST GERMANY AND COMPENSATION FOR NATIONAL SOCIALIST EXPROPRIATION; CHAPTER 6. THE MODERNIZATION OF WEST GERMAN POLICE; CHAPTER 7. WEST GERMAN SOCIETY AND FOREIGNERS IN THE 1960S; CHAPTER 8. THE WEST GERMAN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM AND THE LEGACY OF NAZISM; CHAPTER 9. DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Chapter 10. the sexual revolution and the legacies of the nazi pastchapter 11. the german new left and national socialism; chapter 12. public demonstrations of the 1960s; chapter 13. new leftists and west germany; chapter 14. conservative intellectuals and the debate over national socialism and the holocaust in the 1960s; chapter 15. catholic student fraternities, the national socialist past, and the student movement; chapter 16. turning away from the past; chapter 17. germany's pr man; chapter 18. auschwitz and the nuclear sonderweg; contributors; select bibliography; index
Notes Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues, including prosecution for war crimes, restitution, immigration policy, health policy, r
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-333) and index
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
Conflict of generations -- Germany (West) -- Congresses
National socialism -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
New Left -- Germany (West) -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Psychological aspects
Conflict of generations
Ethnic relations
Historiography
National socialism -- Psychological aspects
New Left
SUBJECT Germany (West) -- Historiography -- Congresses
Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Subject Germany (West)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Steinweis, Alan E
ISBN 9780857457066
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