Focussing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust traces the process ofVergangenheitsbewaltigung ('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasio
Focussing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust traces the process ofVergangenheitsbewaltigung ('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasio
This book constitutes a new history of the complex memory cultures that persisted within post-war West Germany, examining the attitudes of ordinary people to the second wave of Nazi war crimes trials
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany was under the grip of the Third Reich. Headed by Adolf Hitler, this National Socialist state endeavoured to control every aspect of the nation’s political, social,
