[PDF] Allied Bombing In World War Ii And The Politics Of Memory In Post War Germany eBook

Author : Elfie Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781544870472

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In the final phase of World War II, Germany suffered destruction by bombing of an unprecedented scale. Beginning in 1942 and continuing to the last months of the war, the Allies carried out extensive bombing of German cities with its main target on industrial sites. The attacks virtually destroyed a number of cities including Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Essen, Freiburg, and Dortmund and left large parts of Berlin and Munich in ruins. The number of civilians killed in these bombings is estimated at anywhere between 420,000 and 570,000. For a long time, Germans avoided public discussions of these events. Recently, however, things have started to change.

Author : Randall Hansen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0307372383

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National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.

Author : David F. Crew
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 047212238X

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Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue, because Germans who had endured the bombings had largely been condemned to silence after 1945. David Crew shows that far from being marginalized in postwar historical consciousness, the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity. Local narratives of the bombing war, including photographic books, had already established themselves as important “vectors of memory” in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The bombing war had allowed Germans to see themselves as victims at a time when the Allied liberation of the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials presented Germans to the world as perpetrators or at least as accomplices. The bombing war continued to serve this function even as Germans became more and more willing directly to confront the genocide of European Jews—which by the 1960s was beginning to be referred to as the Holocaust. Bodies and Ruins examines a range of local publications that carried photographic images of German cities destroyed in the air war, images that soon entered the visual memory of World War II. Despite its obvious importance, historians have paid very little attention to the visual representation of the bombing war. This book follows the search for what were considered to be the “right” stories and the “right” pictures of the bombing war in local publications and picture books from 1945 to the present, and is intended for historians as well as general readers interested in World War II, the Allied bombing of German cities, the Holocaust, the history of memory and photographic/visual history.

Author : Maja Zehfuss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521174466

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German memories of the Second World War are controversial, and they are used to justify different positions on the use of military force. In this book, Maja Zehfuss studies the articulation of memories in novels in order to discuss and challenge arguments deployed in political and public debate. She explores memories that have generated considerable controversy, such as the flight and expulsion of Germans from the East, the bombing of German cities and the 'liberation' of Germany in 1945. She shows how memory retrospectively produces a past while claiming merely to invoke it, drawing attention to the complexities and contradictions within how truth, ethics, emotion, subjectivity and time are conceptualised. Zehfuss argues that the tensions and uncertainties revealed raise political questions that must be confronted, beyond the safety net of knowledge. This is a compelling book which pursues an original approach in exploring the politics of invocations of memory.

Author : Jörg Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1139497464

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The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be traced from the 1940s to the present. While the death of half a million civilians and the destruction of much of Germany's urban landscape provided 'usable' rallying points in the great political confrontations of the day, the cataclysms were above all remembered on a local level, in the very spaces that had been hit by the bombs and transformed beyond recognition. The author investigates how lived experience in the shadow of Nazism and war was translated into cultural memory by local communities in Kassel and Magdeburg struggling to find ways of coming to terms with catastrophic events unprecedented in living memory.

Author : Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1845459881

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Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people’s experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.

Author : Jörg Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 9781139128247

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A first study in English of the cultural legacy of World War II bombing in post-war Germany.

Author : Dagmar Barnouw
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253346513

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Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the impact of the war and the Holocaust on the non-Jewish German population remains a subject that is difficult to broach in public. While the literature on the Second World War in Europe is enormous, the experiences of these Germans have been little studied, as if the memories of the defeated were not deserving of preservation. In Germany 1945, an examination of Allied photography of postwar Germany, Dagmar Barnouw demonstrated one of the means by which the victors sought to impose the burden of responsibility for World War II and the Holocaust on the German people as a whole. Now, in The War in the Empty Air, she demonstrates how deeply that narrative took hold and the silence it imposed, in the context of recent controversies surrounding history and memory.

Author : Jenny Wüstenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107177464

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This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

Author : Sam Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107074576

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A fresh perspective on World War II commemoration that identifies the central place of war memory in post-1945 transatlantic relations.