The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2006
384 pages
978-0-8223-8833-3 (ISBN)
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Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).
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Richard Ned Lebow is James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of many books, including The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests, and Orders.Wulf Kansteiner is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. He is the author of In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz.Claudio Fogu teaches in the French and Italian Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Historic Imaginary: Politics of History in Fascist Italy.
Content
Preface: ix
The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow 1
From Victim Myth to Co-Responsibility Thesis: Nazi Rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian Memory / Heidemarie Uhl 40
The Legacy of World War II in France: Mapping the Discourses of Memory / Richard J. Golsan 73
Losing the War, Winning the Memory Battle: The Legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner 102
Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory / Claudio Fogu 147
New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska 177
What Is So Special about Switzerland? Wartime Memory as a National Ideology in the Cold War Era / Regula Ludi 210
Past as Present, Myth, or History? Discourses of Time and The Great Fatherland War / Thomas C. Wolfe 249
The Politics of Memory and Poetics of History / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner 284
Bibliography 311
Contributors 355
Index 357
The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow 1
From Victim Myth to Co-Responsibility Thesis: Nazi Rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian Memory / Heidemarie Uhl 40
The Legacy of World War II in France: Mapping the Discourses of Memory / Richard J. Golsan 73
Losing the War, Winning the Memory Battle: The Legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner 102
Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory / Claudio Fogu 147
New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska 177
What Is So Special about Switzerland? Wartime Memory as a National Ideology in the Cold War Era / Regula Ludi 210
Past as Present, Myth, or History? Discourses of Time and The Great Fatherland War / Thomas C. Wolfe 249
The Politics of Memory and Poetics of History / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner 284
Bibliography 311
Contributors 355
Index 357
