Germans as Victims

From the contents:
Notes on the Contributors
Maps
Introduction
B.Niven / The Politics of the Past in the 1950s: Rhetorics of Victimization in East and West Germany
R.G.Moeller / Victims in Uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s
R.G.Moeller / Taboo or Tradition? The 'Germans as Victims' Theme in West Germany until the Early 1990s
R.Wittlinger / The Continually Suffering Nation? Cinematic Representations of German Victimhood
P.Cooke / The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy: From the 'Historians' Dispute' to German Suffering
H.Schmitz / The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden
B.Niven / Victims of the Berlin Wall
P.Ahonen / The Victims of Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change in German Commemorative Politics
A.H.Beattie / Representations of German Wartime Suffering in Recent Fiction
S.Taberner / Air War Legacies: From Dresden to Baghdad
A.Huyssen / From the Margins to the Centre? The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany
K.von Oppen / S.Wolff / On Taboos, Traumas and Other Myths: Why the Debate About German Victims of the Second World War is not a Historians 'Controversy
S.Berger / Chronology of Victimhood
Select Bibliography
Index

Bill Niven ist Professor für deutsche Zeitgeschichte an der Nottingham Trent University, England. Er hat mehrere Bücher zum Thema Vergangenheitsbewältigung geschrieben.