Author: WIEDMER, CAROLINE
Title: The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France. ISBN 9780801434648
Description: Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press, 1999. 244 pp. Good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Over a half a century after World War II, Germany and France still struggle to understand the Holocaust and to confront their roles in the tragedy. Through an interpretation of a wide array of contemporary cultural texts--including memorials and memorial sites, museums and exhibits, national commemorations, books, and films--Caroline Wiedmer traces the evolution of an often conflicted postwar politics of memory in these two nations.

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