Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues, including prosecution for war crimes, restitution, immigration policy, health policy, reform of the police, German relations with Israel and the United States, nuclear non-proliferation, and, of course, student politics and the New Left protest movement. Coping with the Nazi Past CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. CRITICAL MEMORY AND CIVIL SOCIETY CHAPTER 2. THE RETURN OF THE IMAGES CHAPTER 3. EXPLANATION, DISSOCIATION, APOLOGIA CHAPTER 4. THE “COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATIVE PROCEEDINGS—FRANCE” CHAPTER 5. WEST GERMANY AND COMPENSATION FOR NATIONAL SOCIALIST EXPROPRIATION CHAPTER 6.THE MODERNIZATION OF WEST GERMAN POLICE CHAPTER 7. WEST GERMAN SOCIETY AND FOREIGNERS IN THE 1960S CHAPTER 8. THE WEST GERMAN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM AND THE LEGACY OF NAZISM CHAPTER 9. DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER CHAPTER 10. THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION AND THE LEGACIES OF THE NAZI PAST CHAPTER 11. THE GERMAN NEW LEFT AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM CHAPTER 12. PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE 1960S CHAPTER 13. NEW LEFTISTS AND WEST GERMANY CHAPTER 14. CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUALS AND THE DEBATE OVER NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE HOLOCAUST IN THE 1960S CHAPTER 15. CATHOLIC STUDENT FRATERNITIES, THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PAST, AND THE STUDENT MOVEMENT CHAPTER 16. TURNING AWAY FROM THE PAST CHAPTER 17. GERMANY’S PR MAN CHAPTER 18. AUSCHWITZ AND THE NUCLEAR SONDERWEG CONTRIBUTORS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX