Using public remembrance of the controversial WWII firebombing of Dresden as its case study, the thesis probes the politics of war memory and commemoration. It argues that before, during, and after Germany's reunification, Dresden was portrayed as a, if not the, leading paradigm of German wartime loss and suffering
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Submitted to the School of History, Heritage and Society of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2009
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-319)