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Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War, narratives from Europe and East Asia, edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang

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Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War, narratives from Europe and East Asia, edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
1248926654
Responsibility statement
edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang
Series statement
German and European studies, 41JSTOR eBooks
Sub title
narratives from Europe and East Asia
Table Of Contents
From Hero's Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the "Post-Heroic" Culture of Memory / Andreas Wirsching -- Victim Identities and the Dynamics of "Authentication": Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment / Michael Schwartz -- Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity / Ingo Loose -- History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for "Ghetto Pensions" / J urgen Zarusky -- Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? / Daqing Yang -- The "Death of Manila" in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration / Nakano Satoshi -- Air Raid Victims in Japan's Collective Remembrance of War / James Orr -- Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War / Tatiana Voronina -- Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans / Barbara Christophe -- In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War / Mathias Beer -- Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922-1954 / Tobias Hof -- Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia / Moritz Florin -- East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO's Memory of the World Project / Lori Watt
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