Germany : facing the Nazi past today

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dc.contributor.authorLaurien, I.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-26T13:57:39Z
dc.date.available2015-03-26T13:57:39Z
dc.date.issued2009-07-16
dc.descriptionCITATION: Laurien, I. 2009. Germany: facing the Nazi past today. Literator, 30(3):93-114, doi:10.4102/lit.v30i3.89.en
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://literator.org.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article gives an overview of the changing debate on National Socialism and the question of guilt in German society. Memory had a different meaning in different generations, shaping distinct phases of dealing with the past, from silence and avoidance to sceptical debate, from painful “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” to a general memory of suffering. In present-day Germany, memory as collective personal memory has faded away. At the same time, literature has lost its role as a main medium to mass media like cinema and television. Furthermore, memory has become fragmented. Large groups of members of the German society, like immigrants, see the past from a different perspective altogether. Although the remembrance of the time of National Socialism is still a distinctive part of Germany’s political culture, it has become more generalised, with “Holocaust memory” as a globalised symbol for a fundamental “break” in Western culture.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/89
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent22 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLaurien, I. 2009. Germany: facing the Nazi past today. Literator, 30(3):93-114, doi:10.4102/lit.v30i3.89.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2219-8237 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0258-2279 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.4102/lit.v30i3.89
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96437
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectGermany -- History -- 1945-en_ZA
dc.subjectHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germanyen_ZA
dc.subjectGerman literature -- Influencesen_ZA
dc.subjectGermany -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryen_ZA
dc.subjectGermany -- Intellectual life 21st centuryen_ZA
dc.titleGermany : facing the Nazi past todayen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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