European Memories Of The Second World War

Author : Jörg Echternkamp,Stefan Martens
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459888

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Experience and Memory by Jörg Echternkamp,Stefan Martens Pdf

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people’s experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.

Author : Helmut Peitsch,Charles Burdett,Claire Gorrara
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845451589

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European Memories of the Second World War by Helmut Peitsch,Charles Burdett,Claire Gorrara Pdf

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.

Author : Christian Karner,Bram Mertens
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412851947

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The Use and Abuse of Memory by Christian Karner,Bram Mertens Pdf

Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories remain part of our lives. In academic and human terms, preserving awareness of this past is an ethical imperative. This volume concerns narratives about--and allusions to--World War II across contemporary Europe, and explains why contemporary Europeans continue to be drawn to it as a template of comparison, interpretation, even prediction. This volume adds a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the trajectories of recent academic inquiries. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, political scientists, and area study specialists contribute wide-ranging theoretical paradigms, disciplinary frameworks, and methodological approaches. The volume focuses on how, where, and to what effect World War II has been remembered. The editors discuss how World War II in particular continues to be a point of reference across the political spectrum and not only in Europe. It will be of interest for those interested in popular culture, World War II history, and national identity studies.

Author : Uilleam Blacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317428381

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Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe by Uilleam Blacker Pdf

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Author : Daniel Chirot
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0295993456

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Confronting Memories of World War II by Daniel Chirot Pdf

This collection brings together experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to explore the often overlooked commonalities between European and Asian handling of memories and reflections about guilt. These commonalities suggest new understandings of the war's legacy and the continuing impact of historical trauma.

Author : Claire Gorrara,Helmut Peitsch,Charles Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : OCLC:945917713

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European Memories of the Second World War by Claire Gorrara,Helmut Peitsch,Charles Burdett Pdf

Author : Małgorzata Pakier,Bo Stråth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454300

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A European Memory? by Małgorzata Pakier,Bo Stråth Pdf

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000430295

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The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia by David L. Hoffmann Pdf

This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms—official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades—chapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war memorialization under Putin. This war narrative resonates with the Russian population due to decades of Soviet commemoration, which continued virtually uninterrupted into the post-Soviet period. Major themes of the volume include the use of World War II memory for political legitimation and patriotic mobilization; the striking continuities between Soviet and post-Soviet commemorative practices; the place of Holocaust memorialization in contemporary Russia; Putin’s invocation of the war to bolster national pride and international prestige; and the relationship between individual memory and collective remembrance. Authored by an international group of distinguished specialists, this collection is ideal for scholars of Russia across a range of disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, and cultural studies.

Author : Peter Leese,Jason Crouthamel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319334707

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Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After by Peter Leese,Jason Crouthamel Pdf

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on diverse methodologies, including oral history, and use varied sources such as literature, film and the broadcast media. The contributions discuss imaginative, communal and political responses, as well as the ways in which the later welfare of traumatized individuals is shaped by medical, military, and civilian institutions. Incorporating innovative methodologies and offering a thorough evaluation of current research, the book shows new directions in historical trauma studies.

Author : Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789201277

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Views of Violence by Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger Pdf

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042026292

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Memories and Representations of War by Anonim Pdf

The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality, and deeply pervading the making of the twentieth century. These scholars belong to different yet complementary areas of research – history, literature, cinema, art history; they come from various national realities and discuss questions related to Italy, Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, at times introducing a comparison between European and North American memories of the two World War experiences. These scholars are all guided by the same principle: to encourage the establishment of an interdisciplinary and trans-national dialogue in order to work out new approaches capable of integrating and acknowledging different or even opposing ways to perceive and interpret the same historical phenomenon. While assessing the way the memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory (cinema, literature, art and monuments), the various essays contribute to unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories not to emphasise divisions, but to acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.

Author : Frank Biess,Robert G. Moeller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459987

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Histories of the Aftermath by Frank Biess,Robert G. Moeller Pdf

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 war’s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectives—military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies—this 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.

Author : Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0822338173

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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe by Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu Pdf

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).

Author : Patrick Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136932922

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Remembering the Road to World War Two by Patrick Finney Pdf

‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’ Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UK Remembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the case of each of the major combatant countries, historical writing on the origins of the Second World War has been inextricably entwined with debates over national identity and collective memory. Spanning seven case studies – the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States and Japan – Patrick Finney proposes a fresh approach to the politics of historiography. This provocative volume discusses the political, cultural, disciplinary and archival factors which have contributed to the evolving construction of historical interpretations. It analyses the complex and multi-faceted relationships between texts about the origins of the war, the negotiation of conceptions of national identity and unfolding processes of war remembrance. Offering an innovative perspective on international history and enriching the literature on collective memory, this book will prove fascinating reading for all students of the Second World War.

Author : Zuzanna Bogumił,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Tim Buchen,Christian Ganzer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782382188

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The Enemy on Display by Zuzanna Bogumił,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Tim Buchen,Christian Ganzer Pdf

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.