Histories of the Aftermath The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe [Hardcover]

In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the wars destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectivesmilitary, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studiesthis volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts. With a focus on distinctive national experiences in both Eastern and Western Europe, it illuminates how postwar stabilization coexisted with persistent insecurities, injuries, and trauma.

Frank Biessis Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author ofHomecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany(Princeton UP, 2006), and he is currently working on a history of fear and anxiety in postwar Germany.

Introduction
Frank Biess

I. Defining the Postwar

Chapter 1.The Persistence of the Postwar : Germany and Poland
Norman Naimark

Chapter 2.Feelings in the Aftermath: Toward a History of Postwar Emotions
Frank Biess

Chapter 3.In the Aftermath of Camps
Samuel Moyn

II. Public and Private Memories

Chapter 4.Nothing Is Forgotten: Individual Memory and the Myth of the Great Patriotic War
Lisa Kirschenbaum

Chapter 5.Erased nor Remembered: Soviet Women Combatants and Cultural Strategies of Forgetting In Soviet Russia, 1940s-1980s
Anna Krylova

Chapter 6.Generations as Narrative Communities: On the Private Sources of Official Cultures of Remembrance in Postwar Germany
Dorothee Wierling

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