TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anna Wolff-Poweska
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783653024432
TI  - Memory as Burden and Liberation
T2  - Germans and their Nazi Past (1945–2010)
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02443-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1064098
N2  - This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which leads through a thick of actors, issues, institutions, events and phenomena, is a reflection upon the reasons for which German reckoning with the past turned out to be a process full of contradictions; a bumpy road rippled with political, intellectual and moral mines. This intention is accompanied by the question about the specific character of German collective memory in relation to the helplessness and moral condition of a person defending himself/herself and his/her nation in the face of unimaginable evil.
KW  - Berliner Republik, nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, kollektive Erinnerung
LA  - English
ER  -