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In The House Of The Hangman: The Agonies Of German Defeat, 1943-1949
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The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted…
The Collective Memory Reader
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There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and…
Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany
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Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of the Nazis, applying and modifying techniques they had learned during…
A Cultural History Of Memory: Volumes 1-6
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The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method

The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method

Jeffrey K. Olick

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|November 24, 2016

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National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over—the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of…
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
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States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social…
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
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In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman…