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Title Life after death : approaches to a cultural and social history during the 1940s and 1950s / edited by Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe / Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann -- Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? / Alice Förster, Birgit Beck -- Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 / Sabine Behrenbeck -- Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s / Ido de Haan -- Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann -- Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 / Andrea Petö -- "Going home": the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war / Joanna Bourke -- Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of the war / Dagmar Herzog -- Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture / Pat Thane -- Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s / Michael Wildt -- "Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire": ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe / Damion Van Melis -- Nationalization of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 / Pieter Lagrou -- Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives / Donald Sassoon -- Politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s West and East German industrial design / Paul Betts -- Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? / Alon Confino.
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Subject Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Social change -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Social change.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Social change -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
Germany (West)
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Social conflict -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Social conflict.
Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Germany.
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Psychological aspects.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany (West)
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Bessel, Richard.
Schumann, Dirk.
Other Form: Print version: Life after death. Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521804132 0521009227 (DLC) 2002067421 (OCoLC)49672376
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