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Adolf Hitler
anti-fascism analysis
Author_Richard J. B. Bosworth
Bielefeld School
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collective memory politics
comparative historiography
De Gaulle
democracy
Deutsches Historisches Museum
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Fischer's Work
Fischer’s Work
French Historiography
GDR
george
German Historiography
German History
great
Great Patriotic War
Hitler
interpretation of wartime atrocities
Italian Historiography
kehr
Krieg Der Illusionen
Le Chagrin
mosse
people's
Pieter Geyl
Post Modern Historiography
Post-war
postwar cultural identity
Primat Der Aussenpolitik
Secretary Of State
SED
Soviet historical debates
Tin Drum
totalitarian
trauma memory studies
war
West Germany
world
World War
World War III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415084505
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about `the past that would not fade away' have been reasonably well-known. But in this book, Richard Bosworth maintains that Germany is not unique. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well as in Germany the traumatic history of the `long Second World War' has remained crucial to the culture and the politics of post-war societies. Each has felt a compelling need to interpret this past event and thus to `explain' `Auschwitz' and `Hiroshima'. Bosworth explores the bitter controversies that have developed around a particular interpretation of the war, such as disputes over A.J.P. Taylor's, Origins of the Second World War , Marcel Ophul's film, The Sorrow and the Pity , Renzo De Felice's biography of Mussolini in the 1970s or in post- Glasnost debates about the historiographies of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Richard Bosworth's book is a wide-ranging and thoughtful excursion into comparative history.
