Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
ISBN-10
0857450514
ISBN-13
9780857450517
Category
History
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2008-07-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann, Alon Confino

Description

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.

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