Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond: Disturbing Pasts [Hardcover]

Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyondexplores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by the present.

The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and often dissonant interpretations and representations of these events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and instrumentalized by a later present.

Stephanie Birdis Senior Lecturer in German and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, UK. She is the author ofWomen Writers and National Identity(2003) andRecasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction(1998).

Mary Fulbrookis Professor of German History and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London, UK. She is the author or editor of more than 20 books includingA Concise History of Germany(3rd edition, 2015) andA History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation(4th edition, 2014). Her most recent publications includeDissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships(2011) and the Fraenkel Prize winningA Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust(2012).

Julia Wagneris Research Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, UK.