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Holocaust angst : the Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust memory since the 1970s
- Title
- Holocaust angst : the Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust memory since the 1970s / Jacob S. Eder.
- Author
- Eder, Jacob S.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xvii, 296 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory, such as museums, monuments, and movies, could severely damage the Federal Republic's reputation and even cause Americans to question the Federal Republic's status as an ally. From their perspective, American Holocaust memorial culture constituted a stumbling block for (West) German-American relations since the late 1970s. Providing the first comprehensive, archival study of German efforts to cope with the Nazi past vis-à-vis the United States up to the 1990s, this book uncovers the fears of German officials--some of whom were former Nazis or World War II veterans--about the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Bundesprüfstelle für Jugendgefährdende Schriften Bonn Jahrestagung
- Holocaust (Television program) > Influence
- Holocaust (Television program)
- 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, German
- Memorialization > United States > Foreign public opinion, German
- Public opinion > Germany (West)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography
- Antisemitism > Germany (West)
- Memorialization > United States
- Antisemitism
- Ethnic relations
- Historiography
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Memorialization
- Public opinion
- Public opinion, German
- Judenvernichtung
- Öffentliche Meinung
- Kollektives Gedächtnis
- Transnationale Politik
- Geschichtsbewusstsein
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > United States > Public opinion
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Commemoration > United States
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany > Public opinion
- Collective memory
- Germany (West) > Ethnic relations
- Germany (West)
- United States
- United States > Relations > Germany (West)
- Germany (West) > Relations > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-283) and index.
- Contents
- Holocaustomania: West German diplomats and American Holocaust memorial culture in the late 1970s -- A Holocaust syndrome? Relations between the Federal Republic and American Jewish organizations in the 1980s -- Confronting the anti-German museum: (West Germany) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1979-1993 -- Politicians, professors, and the politics of German history in the American academy from the 1970s to 1990 -- The transformation of Holocaust memory in unified Germany, 1990-1998 -- Holocaust angst and the universalization of the Holocaust.
- ISBN
- 9780190237820
- 0190237821
- 9780190237844
- 0190237848
- 9780190237837 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015050164
- 40026274772
- OCLC
- ocn933587922
- 933587922
- SCSB-14424091
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library