Facing the Nazi Past - United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

List of contents

Chronology 1933–2000 Introduction: the inclusive picture 1 Concentration camp memorial sites 2 The ‘double past’ 3 Resistance 4 8 May 1945 in political discourse 5 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Victor Klemperer 6 The crimes of the Wehrmacht 7 The Walser-Bubis debate 8 The Holocaust Memorial 9 The past in the present

About the author

Bill Niven is Reader in German at the Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on the ways in which West and East Germany viewed the history of the Third Reich. His recent publications include (with J.K.A.Thomaneck) Dividing and Uniting Germany (Routledge, 2000).

Summary

Facing the Nazi Past examines how the Communist East viewed the events of the 1930s and 40s very differently from the West during the Cold War and provides a compelling insight into the debate on the Third Reich in Germany since 1990.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Niven, Niven Bill
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2001
• EAN: 9780415262811
• ISBN: 978-0-415-26281-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General