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Title Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany / edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in German history ; v. 7
Studies in German history ; v. 7.
Contents Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death?
Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index
Notes English
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Subject Death -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Cemeteries -- Germany -- History
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Germany
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Cemeteries
Collective memory
Death
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Germany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054660
Subject Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Confino, Alon, editor.
Betts, Paul, 1963- editor.
Schumann, Dirk, editor.
LC no. 2007030712
ISBN 9780857450517
0857450514
1282626922
9781282626928
9786612626920
6612626925