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Bodies and ruins : imagining the bombing of Germany, 1945 to the present / David F. Crew.
Author
Crew, David F., 1946-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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D810.D6 .C74 2017
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Subject(s)
World War, 1939-1945
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Destruction and pillage
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Germany
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Historiography
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Bombing, Aerial
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Germany
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History
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20th century
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World War, 1939-1945
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Campaigns
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Germany
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World War, 1939-1945
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Aerial operations
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World War, 1939-1945
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Influence
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Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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Summary note
Bodies and Ruins" explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue, because Germans who had endured the bombings had largely been condemned to silence after 1945. David Crew shows that far from being marginalized in postwar historical consciousness, the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity. Local narratives of the bombing war, including photographic books, had already established themselves as important "vectors of memory" in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The bombing war had allowed Germans to see themselves as victims at a time when the Allied liberation of the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials presented Germans to the world as perpetrators or at least as accomplices. The bombing war continued to serve this function even as Germans became more and more willing directly to confront the genocide of European Jews-which by the 1960s was beginning to be referred to as the Holocaust. Despite its obvious importance, historians have paid very little attention to the visual representation of the bombing war. This book follows the search for what were considered to be the "right" stories and the "right" pictures of the bombing war in local publications and picture books from 1945 to the present.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Local stories : narratives of the bombing war, 1949-88
Picture work
The meanings of ruins
Mourning, denial, celebration : the visual work of picture books
East Germany's bombing war : Dresden
After the Cold War : the multimedia bombing war since the 1990s
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780472130139 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0472130137 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016043290
OCLC
965761010
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