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Divided Memory: the Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
 0674213033, 9780674416611, 0674416619

Table of contents :
Preface
1. Multiple Restorations and Divided Memory
2. German Communism's Master Narratives of Antifascism: Berlin-Moscow-East Berlin, 1928-1945
3. From Periphery to Center: German Communists and the Jewish Question, Mexico City, 1942-1945
4. The Nuremberg Interregnum: Struggles for Recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949
5. Purging ""Cosmopolitanism"": The Jewish Question in East Germany, 1949-1956
6. Memory and Policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker
7. The Nuremberg Interregnum: Divided Memory in the Western Zones, 1945-1949. 8. Atonement, Restitution, and Justice Delayed: West Germany, 1949-19639. Politics and Memory since the 1960s
10. Conclusion
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index.

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Divided Memory

Divided

Memory The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys

JEFFREY HERF

Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

1997

Copyright © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Herf, Jeffrey, 1947Divided memory: the Nazi past in the two Germanys / Jeffrey HerE p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-21303-3 (alk. paper) 1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Germany. 2. Antisemitism-Germany (East) 3. Antisemitism-Germany (West) 4. Historiography-Germany (East) 5. Historiography-Germany (West) 6. Historiography-Germany 7. War criminals-Germany (East)-Psychology. S. War criminals-Germany (West)-Psychology. 9. National socialism-Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title. DS04.3.H474 1997 940.53'IS'0943----