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Dresden Firebombing

Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction

Av Tony Joel

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The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre.Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack have become fierce historical battlegrounds, as German feelings of victimhood complete with those of guilt and loss. The Dresden bombing was used by East Germany as a propaganda tool, and has been re-appropriated by the neo-Nazi far right. Meanwhile the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche- the city's sumptuous eighteenth-century church destroyed in the raid-became central to German identity, while in London, a statue of the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, has attracted protests. In this book, Tony Joel focuses on the historical battle to re-appropriate Dresden, and on how World War II continues to shape British and German identity today.
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Tony Joel is Associate Professor in History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. A former German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship holder, and a founding member of Deakin’s Contemporary Histories Research Group, Tony’s main research interests include the politics of war memory and commemoration and sports history.

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Tony Joel's in-depth study does much to explain why the fire-bombing of Dresden has come to hold such iconic status. An original interpretation of changing and conflicting memory cultures, this work is also highly readable.!AZ Professor Mary Fulbrook, FBA, Professor of German History and Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity), University College London !(R)The literature on the politics of memory in Germany is immense, but only recent research has dedicated itself to the processes after the fall of the wall and German unification in 1990. Tony Joel!AZs study is one of the first to combine a broader view of German identity and memory through the prism of the Dresden Bombing. The author can be congratulated for this achievement. This is a highly informative, well written and perceptive work.!AZ Jost D' lffer, Professor of Modern History, University of Koln

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