Stated Memory

East Germany and the Holocaust
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-57113-129-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 187 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.

Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self-deceptionsarising from East Germany's official self-understanding as an enlightened, modern society in which Jewishness did not constitute "difference" or otherness. The study examines East German historiography of the Holocaust, includingits reflection in schoolbooks; analyzes East German concentration camp memorials; discusses the situation of Jews who remained in East Germany; and surveys East German cinematic and literary responses to the Nazi murder of the Jews. The book shows that regardless of the sincerity of the individuals involved in constructing these various forms of memory, the state attempted to orchestrate Holocaust discourse for its own purposes.

Thomas C. Foxis professor of German at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on East German literature and the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Thomas C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INtroduction: Stating German Holocaust Memory
The State of Memory: The Holocaust in East German Historiography
The Texture of Memory: East German Concentration Camp Memorials
In the Melting Pot of Socialism: East German Jews
Berlin, Moscow, and the Imagined Jerusalem: The Holocaust in East German Literature and Film
Epilogue: Stated Memory
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fox, Thomas C
THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).