Towards a History of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung": East and West German War Novels of the 1950s

The war novels which appeared in West and East Germany in the 1950s can be read as mediating between the official and the popular memory in the two German states. The public reception of the novels reveals the changing meaning of the term Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Whereas initially the verb bewälti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Monatshefte. - University of Wisconsin Press. - 87(1995), 3, Seite 287-308
1. Verfasser: Peitsch, Helmut (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1995
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Monatshefte
Schlagworte:Political science Arts Behavioral sciences History Economics
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