Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War

Randall Hansen is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School.Achim Saupe is the director of the Leibniz Research Alliance for Historical Authenticity at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF).Andreas Wirsching is the director of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).Daqing Yang is an associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.

• Introduction: Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World WarRandall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang Part One: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches1. From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim? Reflections on the "Post-Heroic" Culture of MemoryAndreas Wirsching 2. Victim Identities in the Public Sphere: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and ReassessmentMichael Schwartz Part Two: Victims of Genocide and Massacres3. Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group IdentityIngo Loose  4. History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for "Ghetto Pensions"Jürgen Zarusky 5. Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History?Daqing Yang 6. "The Death of Manila" in World War II and Its Postwar CommemorationSatoshi Nakano Part Three: War Victims7. Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of WarJames Orr 8. Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War Tatiana Voronina 9. Victims or Perpetrators or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar PartisansBarbara Christophe Part Four: Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations10. In Search of a Usable Memory: Politics of History and the Commemoration Day for German Forced Migrants after World War IIMathias Beer 11. Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region (1922–54)Tobias Hof 12. Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet   Union and RussiaMoritz Florin  13. East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of WWII-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World ProjectLori Watt