Coping with the Nazi Past

Philipp Gassert teaches Modern History at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

“The authors have taken great pains to identify the neuralgic points of 1968. The book is carefully edited, and all of the essays are solidly researched and immensely readable. The collection provides a good introduction on current German historiography in a concise form for an Anglo-American readership.”  ·  Journal of Cold War Studies“As well as offering an immensely rich analysis of this particular period in post-war German history and its social, political, cultural, intellectual and moral facets, the volume provides material for further questions... In provoking these stimulating questions, this book should be considered as required reading for anyone interested in the dis/continuity of the Nazi past in German history."  ·  European History Quarterly

• PrefaceIntroductionPhilipp Gassert and Alan E. SteinweissChapter 1. Critical Memory and Civil Society: The Impact of the 1960s on German Debates about the PastKonrad H. JarauschChapter 2. The Return of Images: Photographs of Nazi Crimes and the West German Public in the "Long 1960s"Habbo KnochChapter 3. Explanation, Dissociation, Apologia: The Debate over the Criminal Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in the 1960sMarc von MiquelChapter 4. The "Comprehensive Investigative Proceedings - France": West German Judicial Inquiries in Nazi CrimesBernhard BrunnerChapter 5. West Germany and Compensation for National Socialist Expropriation: The Restitution of Jewish Property, 1947-1964Jürgen LillteicherChapter 6. The Modernization of West German Police: Between the Nazi Past and Weimar TraditionKlaus WeinhauerChapter 7. West German Society and Foreigners in the 1960sKaren SchönwälderChapter 8. The West German Public Health System and the Legacy of NazismSigrid StöckelChapter 9. Don't Look Back in Anger: Youth, Pop Culture, and the Nazi PastDetlef SiegfriedChapter 10. The Sexual Revolution and the Legacies of the Nazi PastDagmar HerzogChapter 11. The German New Left and National SocialismMichael SchmidtkeChapter 12. Public Demonstrations of the 1960s: Participatory Democracy or Leftist Fascism?Elizabeth L. B. PeiferChapter 13. New Leftists and West Germany: Fascism, Violence, and the Public Sphere, 1967-1974Belinda DavisChapter 14. Conservative Intellectuals and the Debate over National Socialism and the Holocaust in the 1960sJoachim ScholtyseckChapter 15. Catholic Student Fraternities, the National Socialist Past, and the Student MovementMichael HochgeschwenderChapter 16. Turning Away from the Past: West Germany and Israel, 1965-1967Carole FinkChapter 17. Germany's PR Man: Julius Klein and the Making of Transatlantic MemoryS. Jonathan WiesenChapter 18. Auschwitz and the Nuclear Sonderweg: Nuclear Weapons and the Shadow of the Nazi PastSusanna SchrafstetterNotes on ContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex