Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic
Author: Stuart Taberner
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1571133933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s and examines shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation."--BOOK JACKET.