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Stated memory : East Germany and the Holocaust
- Title
- Stated memory : East Germany and the Holocaust / Thomas C. Fox.
- Author
- Fox, Thomas C.
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : Camden House, 1999.
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- Description
- 177 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates Communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a discursive framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self deceptions arising from East Germany's official self-understanding as an enlightened, modern society in which Jewishness did not constitute "difference" or otherness. The study examines East German historiography of the Holocaust, including its reflection in schoolbooks; analyzes East German concentration camp memorials; discusses the situation of Jews who remained in East Germany; and surveys East German cinematic and literary responses to the Nazi murder of the Jews. The book shows that regardless of the sincerity of the individuals involved in constructing these various forms of memory, the state attempted to orchestrate Holocaust discourse for its own purposes. It also argues that authors and filmmakers at times undermined the state-sponsored orthodox discourse, and that they created some of the most important postwar German confrontations with the Holocaust."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Subject
- 1939-1945
- Jews > Germany (East)
- Holocaust survivors > Germany (East) > History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching > Germany (East)
- Arts, German > Germany (East)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography
- Arts, German
- Ethnic relations
- Historiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures
- Holocaust survivors
- Jews
- Politics and government
- Study skills
- Judenvernichtung
- Rezeption
- Holocaust
- Geschiedschrijving
- Beeldvorming
- Gedenktekens
- Joden
- Holocaust survivors > Germany
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching > Germany (East)
- Arts > Germany (East)
- Holocaust memorials > Germany (East)
- Germany (East) > Ethnic relations
- Germany (East) > Politics and government
- Germany (East)
- Deutschland DDR
- Deutschland (DDR)
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-167) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Stating German Holocaust memory -- The state of memory: the Holocaust in East German historiography -- The texture of memory: East German concentration camp memorials -- In the melting pot of socialism: East German Jews -- Berlin, Moscow, and the imagined Jerusalem: the holocaust in East German literature and film -- Epilogue: stated memory.
- ISBN
- 1571131299
- 9781571131294
- LCCN
- 98036112
- OCLC
- ocm39505727
- 39505727
- SCSB-860555
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library