Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2000009715> ?p ?o ?g. }
- W2000009715 endingPage "194" @default.
- W2000009715 startingPage "147" @default.
- W2000009715 abstract "Some fifty years after the end of World War II, many Germans, including leading politicians, public intellectuals, architects, journalists, writers and historians discussed the most effective way to memorialize the Holocaust, mourn Jewish victims of the Nazi state and signify to themselves and the rest of the world that the Nazi attempt to kill all European Jews was central to any complete account of modern German history. After broad public debate, a majority in the parliament determined that in the center of Berlin—a city that with the end of the East–West division of the Cold War had resumed its former prominence as a major capital in the center of Europe—a monument would be constructed to honor the memory of the murdered Jews of Europe. Within walking distance of the Brandenburg Gate and the remodeled Reichstag building, since 1998 home of the German parliament, and close to the huge new buildings that have sprung up in the past decade to house the national government, the Holocaust Memorial should serve as a powerful reminder that what joined Germans in the present was a past in which millions of other Germans had enthusiastically supported a regime that had sought to eliminate European Jewry. The Holocaust Memorial will be located on ground that was part of the no man's land running along the wall that for nearly forty years divided East from West Berlin. One part of modern German history will cover another.1 [End Page 147] Against the background of debates over what shape the Holocaust Memorial should take, many Germans were also discussing how to commemorate other legacies of World War II. Consider a few examples. In 1992, Helke Sander's film BeFreier und Befreite (Liberators take liberties) presented the past of the thousands of German rape victims of Red Army soldiers at the war's end. A year later, Josef Vilsmaier's Stalingrad evoked the suffering of men rather than women by revisiting the death of the Sixth Army in the winter of 1942/43. This well-known director's film drew more than a million and a half viewers by the end of 1993. Two years later, as the fiftieth anniversary of the war's end approached, papers were filled with pictures of victims of the war—in particular expellees driven out of eastern Europe at the war's end and the victims of Allied bombing raids—and images of Germans mourning their dead and struggling to survive in the rubble.2 Writing in 1997, the novelist W. G. Sebald, a German expatriate at home in England since 1966 but intellectually and emotionally never far from the country of his origin, turned his attention to the strategic bombing war of British and American flyers against German cities. Sebald commented that the destruction, on a scale without historical precedent, entered the annals of the nation, as it set about rebuilding itself, only in the form of vague generalizations. It seems to have left scarcely a trace of pain behind in the collective consciousness. He described a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret, a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged, surrounding the darkest aspects of the final act of destruction, as experienced by the great majority of the German population.3 Günter Grass, arguably Germany's best-known writer, agreed. Speaking as part of a forum on the future of memory in Vilnius in October 2000, he declared that the writer remembers as a profession, and his list of those to be remembered included European Jews, Sinti and Roma and slave laborers persecuted by the Nazis. But he also commented on how curiously disturbing it was that we remember only belatedly and with hesitation the suffering that came to Germans during the war. Grass claimed that only in the margins was it possible to read stories of the..." @default.
- W2000009715 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2000009715 creator A5006514453 @default.
- W2000009715 date "2005-01-01" @default.
- W2000009715 modified "2023-09-25" @default.
- W2000009715 title "Germans as Victims?: Thoughts on a Post-Cold War History of World War IIis Legacies" @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1508804544 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1529550365 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1544775013 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1547972997 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1562197610 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1568578764 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1578544763 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1579304799 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1586088233 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1594000742 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1605245120 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1608173150 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1967164984 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1971489211 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1973146792 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1983441599 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1987589141 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1989637731 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W1992115749 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2000804391 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2009741273 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2011904459 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2016905721 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2019867746 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2022406838 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2024123236 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2024666652 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2030226669 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2030595526 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2031025292 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2031548136 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2051693055 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2054836751 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2061624466 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2062912365 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2066245526 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2066679024 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2070402407 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2071114784 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2083610608 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2088353919 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2102670690 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2109429752 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2140656847 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2140879043 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2146214926 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2159304178 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2329189621 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2336424613 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2416308445 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2618526009 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2795533244 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2795819678 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2795861657 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2796201125 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2796236668 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2800208129 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W2992160249 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W307064639 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W3148674389 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W364042666 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W381093113 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W384815909 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W399793232 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W400496215 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W411479223 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W416839029 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W436125836 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W560241238 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W562798074 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W563850791 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W566197778 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W573514865 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W580869090 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W584288016 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W584857848 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W585075557 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W586013946 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W588841843 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W594026863 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W595460882 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W598412622 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W599726350 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W601991128 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W605413321 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W605439842 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W609842733 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W613584244 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W613685908 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W616441737 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W623032425 @default.
- W2000009715 cites W624567834 @default.