A Nation of victims? representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present / [electronic resource] : edited by Helmut Schmitz. - Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007. - 265 p. - German monitor, no. 67 0144-6355 ; . - German monitor ; no. 67. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : the return of wartime suffering in contemporary German memory culture, literature, and film / Helmut Schmitz -- Germans in the Lager : reports and narratives about imprisonment in post-war Allied internment camps / Gregor Streim -- "Die, von denen man erzahlt hat, dass sie die kleinen Kinder schlachten" : deutsche Leiderfahrung und Bilder von Juden in der deutschen Kultur nach 1945 : zu einigen Texten Wolfgang Weyrauchs / Hans-Joachim Hahn -- The representation of Wehrmacht soldiers as victims in post-war German film : Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? and Der Arzt von Stalingrad / Helen Wolfenden -- The German myth of a victim nation : (re-)presenting Germans as victims in the new debate on their flight and explusion from Eastern Europe / Samuel Salzborn -- Implicit equations in constructions of German suffering / Bill Niven -- Dresden and Hamburg : official memory and commemoration of the victims of Allied air raids in the two Germanies / Gilad Margalit -- Regarding and imagining : contrived immediacy of the Allied bombing campaign in photography, novel, and historiography / Heinz-Peter Preusser -- Lost in translations? : the discourse of "german suffering" and W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Annette Seidel Arpaci -- Wahrheit und Erinnerung : die Spuren des Jahres 1945 in Texten von Christa Wolf / Odile Jansen -- Historicism, sentimentality, and the problem of empathy : Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders in the context of recent representations of German suffering / Helmut Schmitz -- Literary representations in contemporary German fiction of the expulsions of Germans from the east in 1945 / Stuart Taberner -- Der Untergang (2004) : victims, perpetrators, and the continuing fascination of fascism / Paul Cooke.


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Germans in literature.
Germans in motion pictures.
Suffering in literature.
Suffering in motion pictures.
War in literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
German literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Motion pictures--History.--Germany


Electronic books.

PT405 / .N378 2007