Haunted City

Nuremberg - a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher - has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Nazism. This book explores how the Nuremberg community has confronted the implications of the genocide in which it participated, while also dealing with the appalling suffering of ordinary German citizens during and after the war. Neil Gregor's compelling account of the painful process of remembering and acknowledging the Holocaust offers new insights into post-war memory in Germany and how it has operated.Gregor takes a novel approach to the theme of memory, commemoration, and remembrance, and he proposes a highly nuanced explanation for the failure of Germans to face up to the Holocaust for years after the war. His book makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Germany.

ISBN 0300101074   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780300101072 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 816 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 04 Nov 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2008026762   Spine width (mm) 41 DEWEY 943.324087   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Illustrations
		Introduction		1
I		A Society of Victims? The Post-War Years, 1945 to 1957		25
II		The Making of a Memory Culture: Manufacturing Civic Consensus, 1945 to 1961		135
III		Challenging the Consensus, Containing the Challenge: New Impulses, 1958 to 1968		227
IV		Nationalist Residues in a Decade of Flux: Old Responses, 1958 to 1968		299
		Conclusion		375
		Primary Sources		379
		Index		381

"The book is eloquently written, highly readable, and persuasively argued."--;i>Holocaust and Genocide Studies"--Edith Raim "Holocaust and Genocide Studies "

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