Over a half a century after World War II, Germany and France still struggle to understand the Holocaust and to confront their roles in the tragedy. Through an interpretation of a wide array of contemporary cultural texts--including memorials and memorial sites, museums and exhibits, national commemorations, books, and films--Caroline Wiedmer traces the evolution of an often conflicted postwar politics of memory in these two nations. Her analyses of sites of memory and of policies and national debates reveal the two countries' deep-seated ambivalence in the face of a desire to forget the horrors of the Holocaust and the need to remember them. Among the issues Wiedmer examines are France's emerging sense of accountability and the fierce conflicts generated by the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" to be built in Berlin. In her detailed account of how the Nazis took over a ready-made system of internment camps built by the French before World War II, and in her discussion of the uses to which the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was put by both the Soviet and the East German governments after the war, Wiedmer uncovers disturbing patterns of recurrence that painfully complicate France's and Germany's relationships to the Holocaust itself and to the act of commemoration. The author also examines Art Spiegelman's Maus and Michael Verhoeven's film The Nasty Girl.
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National Socialism, Third Reich, Jews of Europe, National Socialist, Bayerisches Viertel, Neue Wache, The German Question, French Republic, Bayerischer Platz, East German, West Germany, Daniel Libeskind, World War, Final Solution, French Jews, Art Spiegelman, Berlin Senate, Potsdamer Platz, Henry Bulawko, Perspective Berlin, Rafael Newman, Shelomo Selinger, Active Museum, General de Gaulle, Yad Vashem New!
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- Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (A Midland Book) by Geoffrey Hartman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Politics of Memory by Jane Kramer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia by Andreas Huyssen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany by Eric L. Santner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory by Geoffrey Hartman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Crises of Memory and the Second World War by Susan Rubin Suleiman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Using and Abusing the Holocaust (Jewish Literature and Culture) by Lawrence L. Langer in Back Matter
- The Holocaust Novel (Genres in Context) by Efraim Sicher on page 207
- The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture by Alon Confino in Front Matter
- In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France by Maud S. Mandel in Back Matter
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