Legacies of Stalingrad: Remembering the Eastern Front in Germany Since 1945

ISBN-13: 9781107013049 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 308 str.

Christina Morina

Opis

Christina Morina's book examines the history of the Eastern Front war and its impact on German politics and society throughout the postwar period.

Recenzje

"Professor Morina has written a sophisticated study of World War II, and of how that memory shaped public discourse and eventually political policy: 'the public use of history.'" -Ronald Smelser, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Spis treści

1. Memory under occupation: the emergence of competing memories of the Eastern Front; 2. Cold War: political memory of the Eastern Front in divided Germany; 3. Lessons of the Eastern Front: the Wehrmacht legacy and the remilitarization of Germany; 4. Peacetime wars: official memory and the integration of individual wartime experiences; 5. The past reinforced: the memory of the Eastern Front from Ulbricht to Honecker; 6. The past revisited: West German memory of the Eastern Front in the era of détente.