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Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture 25 (1)
Gender and the Generations of Difficult Knowledge: Recent Responses to Familial Legacies of Nazi Perpetration
2009 •
Susanne Luhmann
Luhmann, Susanne. 2009. “Gender and the Generations of Difficult Knowledge: Recent Responses to Familial Legacies of Nazi Perpetration.” Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture 25 (1): 174–98.
Global Entanglements: Reflections on researching religion in a post 9/11 world (Part 1)
Karla O Poewe
Abstract Poewe Much current research is informed by Foucault’s discourse model based on speech forms and the assumption that power is in the discourse itself. The concreteness of human beings, their actions, the mentors and institutions that shape them, or the worldviews that hold them captive, are ignored. Another approach is necessary to get at the global entanglements and continuation of Nazism precisely because it is a political religion that most people want to forget. Metaphorically speaking, the approach is like peeling an onion. The paper is an assessment of a book, which does not ring true. Sigrid Hunke, claiming to be a scholar of religions, wrote a best-seller published in 1960 with the curious title, Allah’s Sun over the Occident: Our Arabic Heritage. According to Hunke, she wrote the book to defend Arabic Islam against Western prejudices. But initial archival research showed her to have been a committed SS-intellectual and defender of the Germanic exemplar in the 1940s. Why then this post-WWII transformation into a human rights advocate with an affinity for a politico-religious minority that, furthermore, is held up as a model worthy of emulation? Here the metaphor of peeling the onion is useful because I cut, as it were, into the flow of the paper with text boxes that contain commentaries about the methods and concepts that guided me in uncovering a deception. More importantly, and beyond this, the reader is taken to the core of the Nazi worldview and to Hunke’s mentors who devised their own methods and concepts to construct it – methods and concepts to which Hunke remained loyal in all her works.
Cultural Representations of the Holocaust. Phd Thesis
Alan Polak
ABSTRACT This thesis evaluates representations of the Holocaust in fiction and other genres and emphasises the relationship between the texts examined and the historical events they represent. The first three chapters are focussed on the victims. Chapter 1 considers representations of the death camp Treblinka in Jean-François Steiner’s novel Treblinka and Ian MacMillan’s novel Village of a Million Spirits. Questions of ideological bias and historical accuracy in works of fiction are examined. Chapter 2 considers works produced by writers who were inside the Warsaw ghetto. Readings of the diaries of Chaim Kaplan, Emmanuel Ringelblum and Adam Czerniakow, and of Bread for the Departed, a novel by Bogdan Wojdowski, assess how they add to understanding of the events they describe. Chapter 3 considers novels about the Warsaw ghetto by authors who were not personally involved: The Wall by John Hersey, The Final Station Umschlagplatz by Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz and The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski. The potential for ideological distortion of the events is examined. The final two chapters are focussed on the perpetrators. Chapter 4 examines the role of Nazi ideology in the Holocaust, and the question of German guilt and responsibility, including the contributions of Eberhard Jäckel, Karl Jaspers and Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich. Examples of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation are considered, including several books of interviews with children of leading Nazis, as well as Niklas Frank’s book condemning his father Hans. Chapter 5 examines fictional representations of the Holocaust by German authors: Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, Alfred Andersch’s Efraim’s Book, Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Flights of Love, Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, and Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, From the Diary of a Snail and Crabwalk. These novels are considered in the light of connections between postwar Germany and the perpetrators of the Holocaust. The thesis confirms the importance of historical fact in Holocaust representation.
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
A Model for Coming to Terms with the Past? Holocaust Remembrance and Antisemitism in Germany since 1945
2020 •
Gunther Jikeli
The hom*osexualization of America
1982 •
Dennis Altman
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Sexuality and Nazism: The doubly unspeakable?
2002 •
elizabeth heineman
Genocide Studies and Prevention
Bonding Images: Photography and Film as Acts of Perpetration
2018 •
Christophe Busch
Historical and contemporary cases of collective violence show an incremental use of photography and film to capture and disseminate violent acts. Recording cruelty during conflict seems to be a highly ritualised practice that urges the question what communicative and psychological functions these acts have? Why and how does perpetrator photography shape a binding moral world that divides 'us' versus 'them'? These visualising acts are commonly seen as proof of power that desensitises the perpetrators and dehumanises the victims. This contribution focuses on the imagery of the Holocaust, looks into the functions that capturing and sharing cruelty has on the evolution of aggression (behavior, cognition and arousal) and connects with some insights from the field of social (neuro-)science what the effects are on perpetration. The camera as a crucial weapon for a divided world.
Lem Little Known
Biography of Stanislaw Lem (in English)
2021 •
Lech Keller
This publication is, in my opinion, the first serious attempt to compile a comprehensive biography of Stanisław Lem in English. In this study, I will try to write the truth about Lem - as objective as possible in practice. After all, Lem himself wrote in his autobiography "Mein Leben" that "a man can write a series of autobiographies that differ significantly from each other, depending on the adopted point of view and selection criteria." I do not mean any attempt to "debunk" Lem, but to find the nucleus of the truth about him, which is, however, currently quite difficult, as there is still no publicly available Lem museum with an appropriate library and access to Lem's archives is still restricted in practice only for the group of "relatives and friends" of Stanisław Lem's son and the writer's former personal secretary.
Plotlines of Victimhood : the Holocaust in German and Dutch history textbooks, 1920-2010
2017 •
marc van berkel
markdownabstractBefore the 1960s, most history textbooks in Western Europe hardly contained any information about the ‘Holocaust’. This was partly because contemporary history still was a rudimentary part of the history curriculum. In addition, many teachers and textbook authors did not seem to be willing to discuss the persecutions of the Jews in class. Other (military) aspects of the Second World War gained more attention. Anno 2017, the situation has changed completely: the Holocaust has become one of the most important historical themes in the national curricula of many (western) countries. In 2010 (the last year of my research period), National Socialism and the Holocaust have become mandatory parts of the secondary education curricula in Germany and the Netherlands. In this dissertation I have studied fifty years of narrating the Holocaust in history textbooks for upper secondary education, published between 1960 and 2010, in North Rhine-Westphalia (one of the federal states o...
Struggling to Remember: Memorializing the Pink Triangles
Bryan Schwartz
