ISBN:
0857450514
,
9780857450517
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 329 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in German history v. 7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Between mass death and individual loss
DDC:
306.90943/0904
Keywords:
Cemeteries History
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History 20th century
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Death History 20th century
;
Collective memory
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Cemeteries
;
Collective memory
;
Death
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Manners and customs
;
History
;
Germany Social life and customs 20th century
;
Germany
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not
Abstract:
Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-321) and index
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