The politics of memory in postwar Europe [electronic resource] / Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu, editors. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006. - xi, 366 p. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-354) and index.

The memory of politics in postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow -- From victim myth to co-responsibility thesis : Nazi rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian memory / Heidemarie Uhl -- The legacy of World War II in France : mapping the discourses of memory / Richard J. Golsan -- Losing the war, winning the memory battle : the legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner -- Italiani brava gente : the legacy of fascist historical culture on Italian politics of memory / Claudio Fogu -- New threads on an old loom : national memory and social identity in postwar and post-communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska -- What is so special about Switzerland? Wartime memory as a national ideology in the Cold War era / Regula Ludi -- Past as present, myth, or history? Discourses of time and the great fatherland war / Thomas C. Wolfe -- The politics of memory and the poetics of history / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner.

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World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945--Europe.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Europe.
National characteristics, European.
Collective memory--Europe.


Electronic books.

D744.55 / .P79 2006