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A German catastrophe? : German historians and the Allied bombings, 1945-2010 /
As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing war left a strong imprint on German society. To a much wider extent than is often claimed, the Allied bombings became part of German debates on the Second World War. In both the GDR as well as the Federal Republic before and after 1...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | UvA proefschriften.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing war left a strong imprint on German society. To a much wider extent than is often claimed, the Allied bombings became part of German debates on the Second World War. In both the GDR as well as the Federal Republic before and after 1990 the air war became a topic of public and political interest as well as the subject of many historical accounts. Bas von Benda-Beckmann analyzes the German historiography of the Allied bombings since 1945. He explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on post-war German identity, and whether the history of the air war formed a "counter-narrative" against the idea that the Germans as a collective were guilty of the Nazi crimes |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (387 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789048513703 9048513707 9056296531 9789056296537 1282985124 9781282985124 9786612985126 6612985127 |