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A German Catastrophe?: German Historians and the Allied Bombings, 1945-2010

By Von Benda-Beckmann , Bas

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9056296531, 9789056296537
Google Books ID
qJidez24oygC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7863239 bytes)
Pages
391\391
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing war left a strong imprint on German society. To a much wider extent than is often claimed, the Allied bombings became part of German debates on the Second World War. In both the GDR as well as the Federal Republic before and after 1990 the air war became a topic of public and political interest as well as the subject of many historical accounts. Bas von Benda-Beckmann analyzes the German historiography of the Allied bombings since 1945. He explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on post-war German identity, and whether the history of the air war formed a "counter-narrative" against the idea that the Germans as a collective were guilty of the Nazi crimes. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056296537.

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