Reverberations of Nazi violence in Germany and beyond : disturbing pasts

"Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by the present. It considers unexpected and often dissonant interpretations and representations of past events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of how a disturbing past continues to disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed by a later present"-- Includes bibliographical references and index. xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm