Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond

Stephanie Bird is Senior Lecturer in German and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, UK. She is the author of Women Writers and National Identity (2003) and Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction (1998).Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London, UK. She is the author or editor of more than 20 books including A Concise History of Germany (3rd edition, 2015) and A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation (4th edition, 2014). Her most recent publications include Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships (2011) and the Fraenkel Prize winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012).Julia Wagner is Research Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, UK.Christiane Wienand is Research Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, UK.

This is a fascinating collection of stimulating essays … there is much to recommend the volume, including the interdisciplinary and transnational approaches the authors take in investigating the ‘development of narratives, experiences and disturbances’. The volume also recommends itself by moving away from broad, amorphous collectives in the construction of memory and towards the individuals’ roles in these processes in their concrete contexts. What emerges are subtle insights and ample food for thought.

• 1. Introduction: Disturbing the Past/Disturbed by the Past - Stephanie Bird and Mary Fulbrook (both University College London, UK)Part I - Emotional Connections2. Troubling Issues: Guilt and Shame among Persecutors and Persecuted – Mary Fulbrook (University College London, UK)3. Shamed by Nazi Crimes: The First Step towards Germans’ Re-Education or a Catalyst for their Wish to Forget? – Ulrike Weckel (University of Giessen, Germany)4. Ashamed About the Past: The Case of Nazi Collaborators and their Families in Postwar Dutch Society Ismee Tames - (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands)5. Autobiography, Moral Witnessing, and the Disturbing Memory of Nazi Euthanasia Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)Part II - Disturbing Narratives6. Disturbing Mending: On the Imagined Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Literature of the Second Generation – Tsila Ratner (University College London, UK)7. Disturbing the Past: The Representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel’s Der Kalte – Katya Krylova (University of Nottingham, UK)8. The Return of the Jew in Polish Culture – Uilleam Blacker (University College London, UK)Part III - Fascination / Pleasure9. Don't Mention the War – Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)10. ‘However sick a joke…’: On Comedy, the Representation of Suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Melodrama and Volker Koepp’s Melancholy - Stephanie Bird (University College London, UK)11. Disturbing Anselm Kiefer – Caitriona Leahy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part IV - Better Futures? (Dis)Placing Identities 12. German Tourists in Europe and Reminders of a Disturbing Past – Julia Wagner (University College London, UK)13. Reverberations of a Disturbing Past: Reconciliation Activities of Young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s – Christiane Wienand (University College London, UK)14. Disturbing Pasts and Better Futures? A Comparison of Recent Approaches to the Past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans – Gaelle Fisher (University College London, UK)15. How to Cope with It? The Steuben Society of America’s Politics of Memory and the Holocaust – Julia Lange (University of Hamburg, Germany)Afterword: Hauntings and Revisitings across Generations - Lisa Appignanesi (King's College London, UK)BibliographyIndex