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Author Moeller, Robert G

Title War stories : the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany / Robert G. Moeller
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Listening to War Stories; 2. Accounting for the Past; 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte; 4. Prisoners of Public Memory; 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Political refugees -- Germany (West) -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
Population transfers -- Germans.
Germans -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Germans
Political refugees
Population transfers -- Germans
Refoulement
Deutscher Kriegsgefangener
Kriegsverbrechen
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Vertriebener
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Collectief geheugen.
Duitsers.
Slachtoffers.
Krijgsgevangenen.
Vluchtelingen.
Réfugiés politiques -- Allemagne (est) -- Histoire.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Rapatriement forcé.
Transferts de population -- Allemands.
Allemands -- Europe de l'Est -- 20e siècle.
Réfugiés allemands -- Allemagne -- 1945-1970.
Mémoire collective -- Allemagne -- 1945-.
Eastern Europe
Germany (West)
Deutschland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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