Books written by Alon Confino
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The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture
Viking Press , 1963 ) ; Zygmunt Bauman , Modernity and the Holocaust ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1992 ) ... The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior ( New York : Holmes & Meier , 1980 ) ; Saul Friedlander , " Some ...
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves—where they came from and where they were heading—and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise.
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-century Germany
"This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term cataclysmic violence unleashed by two world wars.
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
... postwar Germany, we still lack the requisite knowledge of the dominant discourses at the time in order to fully ... speaking about the experience of war and death. Of course, this did not happen right away. As I have shown elsewhere ...
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The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918
In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions.
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
This penetrating new assessment of the burning of the Hebrew Bible by the Nazis on November 9, 1938 explores how the Germans came to conceive of the idea of Germany without the Jews, which required that both Jews and Judaism be erased from ...
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Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History
... Heimat,'' defined the Germanness of Heimat to be beyond political conflicts: ''Germany is a divided land. One part ... North American response to modernity's transformation of the landscape and liquidation of the past.66 Heimat ...
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Um Mundo sem Judeus: Da Perseguição ao Genocídio, a Visão do Imaginário Nazista
... contra judeus e acabara de ser levado a termo o fim da comunidade judaica na Alemanha. O que significava “aniquilamento” em janeiro de 1939 — para os alemães, mas também para Hitler — pois também Hitler era criação dos horizontes ...