Excavating the Nazi past in Austrian contemporary film: Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018) and The Testament (2017)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jakub Gortat
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Film ◽  
Nazi Past

Book Reviews

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-146
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
German Industry ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
Nazi Era

Clarence Lusane, Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era (New York and London: Routledge 2002)Review by Kader KonukHelmut Lethen, Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany, trans. Don Reneau (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2002)Review by Daniel MoratJulia Sneeringer, Winning Women’s Votes: Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)Review by Diane J. GuidoS. Jonathan Wiesen, West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)Review by Simon Reich

Germany after Unification: Normal at Last?

1997 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Mcadams
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
A Priori ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
German Identity ◽  
Worthy Goal ◽  
Nazi Past

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of “normalcy” has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policy makers. In addition, it has also suffused much of the emerging literature on the domestic and international implications of German unification. Some observers argue that unification embodies the call to normalcy, offering Germany's leaders the opportunity to put their nation's past behind them. Others treat the events of 1989–90 as part of an ongoing challenge to German identity. Finally, a third group of scholars regards the invocation of German unity as an excuse for papering over the crimes of the Nazi past. Although there is no a priori basis for considering any one of these approaches the most appropriate for assessing contemporary German affairs, this does not mean one's choice of terms is totally arbitrary. If German normalcy is to mean anything analytically, it must minimally represent an attainable and worthy goal to which the leaders of the Federal Republic can aspire in their efforts to make Germany more like other European states.

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