War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)

by Robert G. Moeller

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Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of ""forgetting"" or silence about the Nazi past.

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Very good on the official construction of the history of the rape of German women at the hands of the Soviets, and the crushing point that the Historikerstreit school were retailing an argument culled from German popular culture of the late forties and early fifties, that the Nazis were a reaction to Soviet barbarism. (

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Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of ""forgetting"" or silence about the Nazi past.

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