The revival of Nazi war crime trials by the start of the 1960s appeared to usher in a new era of West German reflection, soul-searching and critical confrontation with the murderous legacy of the Third Reich. For the first time, the Holocaust began to assume a central position within the public historical consciousness. War crime trials were accompanied by a new wave of commemorative activities, an outpouring of survivor testimony, novels and historical research, as well as cultural representations of the Nazi era in terms of films, plays and television series. West Germans and the Nazi...

How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.