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

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.

1. Introduction: Disturbing the Past/Disturbed by the Past-Stephanie Bird and Mary Fulbrook(both University College London, UK)
Part I - Emotional Connections
2. Troubling Issues: Guilt and Shame among Persecutors and Persecuted Mary Fulbrook (University College London, UK)
3. Shamed by Nazi Crimes: The First Step towards Germans' Re-Education or a Catalyst for their Wish to Forget? Ulrike Weckel (University of Giessen, Germany)
4.Ashamed About the Past: The Case of Nazi Collaborators and their Families
in Postwar Dutch SocietyIsmee Tames - (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands)
5. Autobiography, Moral Witnessing, and the Disturbing Memory
of Nazi Euthanasia
Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Part II - Disturbing Narratives
6. Disturbing Mending: On the Imagined Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Literatls'