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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss : The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany / ed. by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in German History ; 7Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453978
  • 9780857450517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.90943/0904 22/eng
LOC classification:
  • DD239
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction DEATH AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY Paul Betts, Alon Confino, and Dirk Schumann -- Part I BODIES -- Chapter 1 HOW THE GERMANS LEARNED TO WAGE WAR On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars -- Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF DEATH IN GERMANY AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- Chapter 3 REBURYING AND REBUILDING Reflecting on Proper Burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour” -- Part II DISPOSAL -- Chapter 4 FANNING THE FLAMES Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany -- Chapter 5 DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN EAST GERMANY, 1945–1990 -- Chapter 6 DEATH AT THE MUNICH OLYMPICS -- Chapter 7 WHEN COLD WARRIORS DIE Th e State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht -- Part III SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 8 A COMMON EXPERIENCE OF DEATH Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914–1923 -- Chapter 9 LAUGHING ABOUT DEATH? “GERMAN HUMOR” IN THE TWO WORLD WARS -- Chapter 10 DEATH, SPIRITUAL SOLACE, AND AFTERLIFE Between Nazism and Religion -- Chapter 11 YIZKOR! COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD BY JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS IN POSTWAR GERMANY -- Part IV RUINS -- Chapter 12 THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany -- Chapter 13 EUROPEAN MELANCHOLY AND THE INABILITY TO LISTEN Sebald, Politics, and Death -- Chapter 14 A CEMETERY IN BERLIN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction DEATH AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY Paul Betts, Alon Confino, and Dirk Schumann -- Part I BODIES -- Chapter 1 HOW THE GERMANS LEARNED TO WAGE WAR On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars -- Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF DEATH IN GERMANY AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- Chapter 3 REBURYING AND REBUILDING Reflecting on Proper Burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour” -- Part II DISPOSAL -- Chapter 4 FANNING THE FLAMES Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany -- Chapter 5 DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN EAST GERMANY, 1945–1990 -- Chapter 6 DEATH AT THE MUNICH OLYMPICS -- Chapter 7 WHEN COLD WARRIORS DIE Th e State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht -- Part III SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 8 A COMMON EXPERIENCE OF DEATH Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914–1923 -- Chapter 9 LAUGHING ABOUT DEATH? “GERMAN HUMOR” IN THE TWO WORLD WARS -- Chapter 10 DEATH, SPIRITUAL SOLACE, AND AFTERLIFE Between Nazism and Religion -- Chapter 11 YIZKOR! COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD BY JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS IN POSTWAR GERMANY -- Part IV RUINS -- Chapter 12 THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany -- Chapter 13 EUROPEAN MELANCHOLY AND THE INABILITY TO LISTEN Sebald, Politics, and Death -- Chapter 14 A CEMETERY IN BERLIN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.

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In English.

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