| Description |
1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Contents |
Collective memory, politics, and culture -- Victims and perpetrators : the view from the East -- Victims and perpetrators : the view from the West -- Collaboration and resistance : blood and redemption -- Division and unity : a revolutionary people unites itself -- Defeat and liberation : ending the war -- Conclusion -- Mourning, loss, and the difficulty of remembering -- Appendix: Charts and chart notes -- Filmography |
| Summary |
How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and newspapers. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past; and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the pa |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion.
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Collective memory -- Germany
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War and society -- Germany
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Collective memory -- Germany (East)
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Collective memory -- Germany (West)
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Popular culture -- Germany (East)
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Politics and culture -- Germany (East)
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Politics and culture -- Germany (West)
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Collective memory
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Politics and culture
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Popular culture
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Public opinion
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War and society
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Germany
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Germany (East)
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Germany (West)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611480078 |
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1611480078 |
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