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Author Joel, Tony.

Title Dresden as Opferstadt? : the politics of commemorating destruction, 1985-2005 / by Tony Joel
Published [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008

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Description xii, 319 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm
Summary 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
Notes 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-319)
Subject War victims -- Germany -- Dresden.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Public opinion -- Germany.
Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Dresden.
SUBJECT Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007262 -- Commemoration
Genre/Form Academic theses.
Author Deakin University. Faculty of Arts and Education.
Deakin University. School of History, Heritage and Society