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Author Moeller, Robert G.

Title War stories : the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany / Robert G. Moeller.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Listening to War Stories; 2. Accounting for the Past; 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte; 4. Prisoners of Public Memory; 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past.
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Subject Political refugees -- Germany (West) -- History.
Political refugees.
Germany (West)
History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
World War (1939-1945)
Refoulement.
Population transfers -- Germans.
Population transfers -- Germans.
Germans -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Germans.
Eastern Europe.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Moeller, Robert G. War stories. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520223268 (DLC) 00055964 (OCoLC)44461954
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