Experience and Memory — The Second World War in Europe

Echternkamp and Martens have collected sixteen essays and scholarly articles investigating the cultural memory of World War II in Europe. The text begins with an essay devoted to examining a "new perspective on the war," before moving into conceptualizing the occupations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, looking at the myths and the realities of the war in the minds of the people of Great Britain, the Soviet experience during the war, and a great many other topics. Echternkamp is a faculty member of Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Senior Fellow of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, and co-editor of the journal Militargeschichtliche Aeitschrift. Martens is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute, Paris, and co-editor of the journal Francia-Forschungen zur westeuropaischen Geschichte. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jorg Echternkamp is a Senior Fellow of the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam, and co-editor of the journal Militargeschichtliche Zeitschrift. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary in Canada, Visiting Scholar at the German Historical Institute in Paris, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne- Pantheon) and Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. His major publications include Der Aufstieg des deutschen Nationalismus 1770–1840 (1998), Nach dem Krieg (2003), Kriegsschauplatz Deutschland 1945 (2006) and Germany and the Second World War: German Wartime Society 1939–1945, vols IX/1–2 (2008–2011, ed.).