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Legacies of Stalingrad : remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945

Title
Legacies of Stalingrad : remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945 / Christina Morina.
Author
Morina, Christina, 1976-
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description
x, 297 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Christina Morina's book examines the history of the Eastern Front war and its impact on German politics and society throughout the postwar period. She argues that the memory of the Eastern Front war was one of the most crucial and contested themes in each part of the divided Germany. Although the Holocaust gained the most prominent position in West German memory, official memory in East Germany centered on the war against the USSR. The book analyzes the ways in which these memories emerged in postwar German political culture during and after the Cold War, and how views of these events played a role in contemporary political debates. The analysis pays close attention to the biographies of the protagonists both during the war and after, drawing distinctions between the accepted, public memory of events and individual encounters with the war"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Influence
  • Collective memory > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Political culture > Germany > History > 20th century
  • War and society > Germany > History > 20th century
  • HISTORY / Europe / General
  • Germany > Politics and government > 1945-1990
  • Germany > Politics and government > 1990-
  • Germany > Social conditions > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Memory under occupation : the emergence of competing memories of the Eastern Front -- Cold War : political memory of the Eastern Front in divided Germany -- Lessons of the Eastern Front : the Wehrmacht legacy and the remilitarization of Germany -- Peacetime wars : official memory and the integration of individual wartime experiences -- The past reinforced : the memory of the Eastern Front from Ulbricht to Honecker -- The past revisited : West German memory of the Eastern Front in the era of detente.
Call Number
JFE 11-4117
ISBN
  • 9781107013049 (hardback)
  • 1107013046 (hardback)
LCCN
2011010570
OCLC
YBP 2011010570
Author
Morina, Christina, 1976-
Title
Legacies of Stalingrad : remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945 / Christina Morina.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-4117
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