Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War [electronic resource] : narratives from Europe and East Asia / edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang.

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"The shadow of the Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession. None of these atrocities were new, but they all occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hansen, Randall (Editor)
Saupe, Achim (Editor)
Wirsching, Andreas (Editor)
Yang, Daqing, 1964- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Series:German and European studies.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Europe > Historiography.
World War, 1939-1945 > East Asia > Historiography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Historiography.
War victims > Europe.
War victims > East Asia.
Collective memory > Europe.
Collective memory > East Asia.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2021 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2021 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War: Narratives From Europe and East Asia
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • From Hero's Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the "Post-Heroic" Culture of Memory / Andreas Wirsching
  • Victim Identities and the Dynamics of "Authentication": Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment / Michael Schwartz
  • Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity / Ingo Loose
  • History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for "Ghetto Pensions" / Jürgen Zarusky
  • Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? / Daqing Yang
  • The "Death of Manila" in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration / Nakano Satoshi
  • Air Raid Victims in Japan's Collective Remembrance of War / James Orr
  • Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War / Tatiana Voronina
  • Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans / Barbara Christophe
  • In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War / Mathias Beer
  • Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922-1954 / Tobias Hof
  • Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia / Moritz Florin
  • East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO's Memory of the World Project / Lori Watt.