Haunted City : Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

by Neil Gregor

• ISBN13: 9780300101072
• ISBN10: 0300101074
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2009-01-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Nuremberga city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicherhas struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Nazism. This book explores how the Nuremberg community has confronted the implications of the genocide in which it participated, while also dealing with the appalling suffering of ordinary German citizens during and after the war. Neil Gregor's compelling account of the painful process of remembering and acknowledging the Holocaust offers new insights into postwar memory in Germany and how it has operated. Gregor takes a novel approach to the theme of memory, commemoration, and remembrance, and he proposes a highly nuanced explanation for the failure of Germans to face up to the Holocaust for years after the war. His book makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Germany.

Author Biography

Neil Gregor is reader in modern German history, University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A Society of Victims? The Post-War Years, 1945 to 1957
Lives in Ruins? Nuremberg from Rubble to Reconstruction	p. 25
'Victims of Bolshevism'? The Refugees and Expellees between Assimilation and Self-Assertion	p. 37
'The First Expellees of the War'? The Evacuees as 'External Citizens'	p. 51
The Veteran as Victim: The Heimkehrer between War and Peace	p. 63
Loss, Absence and Remembrance: The Relatives of the Missing	p. 75
Rehabilitation and Reintegration: The 'Victims of Denazification'	p. 88
Re-marginalising the Marginalised: The 'Victims of Fascism'	p. 104
Politics, Ideology, Sympathy, Empathy: Voicing Suffering in the Post-War Era	p. 119
The Making of a Memory Culture: Manufacturing Civic Consensus, 1945 to 1961
Mobilising Memory Communities: Associational Life and the Contestation of the Past	p. 135
Marking Suffering, Masking Schism: The Inscription of Memory on the Urban Landscape, 1945 to 1961	p. 160
Rehearsing Sorrow, Re-forging Society: Rituals of Remembrance between Mourning and Politics	p. 187
Local Stories, National Stories: Exhibiting Memory at the Germanic National Museum	p. 208
Challenging the Consensus, Containing the Challenge: New Impulses, 1958 to 1968
Impulses from Without, Impulses from Within: Liberalisation and the 'Confrontation of the Past'	p. 227
Indicting the Perpetrators, Exonerating the People: Trials and their Reportage in the Local Media	p. 246
Displaying Barbarism, Displacing Blame: Exhibitions on the Holocaust in the 1960s	p. 266
Critiquing History, Creating Democracy? The Nuremberg Conversations, 1965 to 1968	p. 281
Nationalist Residues in a Decade of Flux: Old Responses, 1958 to 1968
The 'Victims of War' (i): The Soldiers' Last Retreat	p. 299
The 'Victims of War' (ii): The Expellees' Offensive	p. 319
Fading Personal Experience, Forging Public Meaning: Commemorations and Civic Identity Politics in the 1960s	p. 336
The Fascist as 'Outsider': Nuremberg, the Nazi Party Rallies and the NPD	p. 355
Conclusion	p. 375
Primary Sources	p. 379
Index	p. 381
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