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.…mehr
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.
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).
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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
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
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