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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Hannah Arendt |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dagmar Barnouw |
ISBN: | 0253346517 9780253346513 0253330467 9780253330468 9780253220400 0253220408 |
OCLC Number: | 59401904 |
Description: | xiv, 303 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The loss of history in postwar German memory -- Historical memory and the uses of remorse -- "Their monstrous past": German wartime fictions -- Censored memories: "Are the Germans victims or perpetrators?" -- The war in the empty air: a moral history of destruction -- No end to "Auschwitz": historical or redemptive memory -- This side of good and evil: a German story. |
Responsibility: | Dagmar Barnouw. |
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"In this book, decisively (and with great sensitivity) Barnouw establishes a case for creating a more complete historical remembrance for postwar generations." -Journal of American Studies "The willing executioners of Hitler's project... had only one experience to tell. This overwhelming silencing of Germans as executioners could not last forever. Dagmar Barnouw's book, The War in the Empty Air, provides evidence of Germans recovering their voice." -Shofar "In a deliberately polemical manner reminiscent of Arendt, Barnouw confronts the petrified, sanctified and officially approved memories of the German past..." -German Studies Review "Barnouw's articulate War in the Empty Air... makes for lively reading." -German History, V.25:2 "[Barnouw's] work is a thought-provoking addition to the flourishing literature on the politics of memory in the contemporary world." -War in History, Vol. 16 no. 4 (2009) "... offers an engaging, provocative outline of the political forces inhibiting the retrieval of memories [of] how the war felt to those who lived through it." -Clio Read more...

