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Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust

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Product Code: 9781571131294
ISBN13: 9781571131294
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Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust

$124.70
 
A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.

Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self-deceptionsarising 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, includingits 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.

Thomas C. Foxis professor of German at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on East German literature and the Holocaust.


Author: Thomas C. Fox
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Publication Date: Jun 24, 1999
Number of Pages: 187 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1571131299
ISBN-13: 9781571131294
 

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