The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation - Tapa dura

 
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Sinopsis

How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? What strategies and taboos are employed to reconstruct wars, revolutions, torturing, mass killings and genocide in a way to make their contradiction to basic human rights and values invisible? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time, in multiple genres, the history and image of the "German Wehrmacht" and the debates in Austria and Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht during WWII.

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HANNES HEER works in Hamburg, Germany as a writer and exhibition organizer. From 1993 to 2000 he worked at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, directing the first Wehrmacht exhibition. He has written numerous publications on National Socialism, the Wehrmacht and post-war recollection. WALTER MANOSCHEK is Professor of Political Science and chairs the Department for Government at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research and publications focus on politics of the past, the political system of National Socialism and Holocaust Studies. ALEXANDER POLLAK is Re

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