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Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War : narratives from Europe and East Asia

Title
Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War : narratives from Europe and East Asia / edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang.
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Hansen, Randall
  • Saupe, Achim
  • Wirsching, Andreas
  • Yang, Daqing, 1964-
  • EBSCOhost
Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
German and European studies
Uniform Title
German and European studies.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Europe > Historiography
  • World War, 1939-1945 > East Asia > Historiography
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Historiography
  • War victims > Europe
  • War victims > East Asia
  • Collective memory > Europe
  • Collective memory > East Asia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Access to content denied by publisher. Description cannot be verified. Title from digital cover (viewed on October 13, 2021).
Contents
From Hero's Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the "Post-Heroic" Culture of Memory / Andreas Wirsching -- Victim Identities and the Dynamics of "Authentication": Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment / Michael Schwartz -- Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity / Ingo Loose -- History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for "Ghetto Pensions" / J gen Zarusky -- Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? / Daqing Yang -- The "Death of Manila" in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration / Nakano Satoshi -- Air Raid Victims in Japan's Collective Remembrance of War / James Orr -- Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War / Tatiana Voronina -- Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans / Barbara Christophe -- In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War / Mathias Beer -- Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922-1954 / Tobias Hof -- Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia / Moritz Florin -- East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO's Memory of the World Project / Lori Watt.
ISBN
  • 9781487528232
  • 148752823X
  • 9781487528225
  • 1487528221
OCLC
om1155968321
Title
Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War : narratives from Europe and East Asia / edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
German and European studies
German and European studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Access to content denied by publisher. Description cannot be verified. Title from digital cover (viewed on October 13, 2021).
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Chronological Term
1939-1945
Added Author
Hansen, Randall, editor.
Saupe, Achim, editor.
Wirsching, Andreas, editor.
Yang, Daqing, 1964- editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487528213 9781487528218
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