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Civil society and memory in postwar Germany / Jenny Wüstenberg (York University, Toronto).
Author
Wüstenberg, Jenny
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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DD257.2 .W83 2017
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Memory
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Political aspects
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Germany
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Influence
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Germany
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Summary note
Blending history and social science, this book tracks the role of social movements in shaping German public memory and values since 1945. Drawn from extensive original research, it offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of German democracy through civic confrontation with the violence of its past. Told through the stories of memory activists, the study upends some of the conventional wisdom about modern German political history. An analysis of the decades-long struggle over memory and democracy shows how grassroots actors challenged and then took over public institutions of memorialization. In the process, confrontation of the Holocaust has been pushed to the centre of political culture. In unified Germany, memory politics have shifted again, as activists from East Germany have brought attention to the crimes of the East German state. This book delivers a novel and important contribution to scholarship about postwar Germany and the wider study of memory politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index.
ISBN
1107177464
9781107177468
OCLC
973744451
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