Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-397-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Studies in German History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Confino, Alon

Betts, Paul

Schumann, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Paul Betts, Alon Confino, 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

Michael Geyer

Chapter 2. The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War

Richard Bessel

Chapter 3. Rebuilding and Reburying: Emergency Cemeteries in Berlin after ‘Zero Hour’

Monica Black

PART II: DISPOSAL

Chapter 4. Fanning the Flames – Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany

Simone Ameskamp

Chapter 5. Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945 – 1990

Felix Robin Schulz

Chapter 6. Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympics

Kay Schiller

Chapter 7. When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht

Paul Betts

PART III: SUBJECTIVITY

Chapter 8. A Common Experience of Death: Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923

Tim Grady

Chapter 9. Laughing about death? `German Humor´ in the Two World Wars

Martina Kessel

Chapter 10. Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife. Between Nazism and Religion

Alon Confino

Chapter 11. Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany

Gabriel Finder

PART IV: RUINS

Chapter 12. The Imagination of Disaster. Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany

Svenja Goltermann

Chapter 13. European Melancholy and the Inability to Listen: Sebald, Politics, and Death

Daniel Steuer

Chapter 14. A Cemetery in Berlin

Peter Fritzsche

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Betts, Paul
Paul Betts is Professor of European History at the University of Sussex.  He is the author of The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley, 2004) and Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford, 2010). He was Joint Editor of the journal German History, 2004-2009.

Confino, Alon
Alon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written substantially on nationhood, memory, and historical method. His new book is Foundational Pasts: An Essay in Holocaust Interpretation (CUP, 2011).

Schumann, Dirk
Dirk Schumann is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Georg-August University, Göttingen. His most recent books include Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child“: The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective (Berghahn, 2010, edited), Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War (Berghahn, 2009).

Alon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written substantially on nationhood, memory, and historical method. His new book is Foundational Pasts: An Essay in Holocaust Interpretation (CUP, 2011).