The Undivided Sky The Holocaust on East and West German Radio in the 1960s

by Wolf, Ren

• ISBN13: 9780230576766
• ISBN10: 0230576761
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an examination of German media attempts to deal with the recent past at a time of heightened Cold War tensions, focusing on East and West German radio broadcasts around the time of the first Auschwitz Trial in 1963. It highlights reportage on the trial and the ideological interpretations of the Holocaust used by broadcasters.

Author Biography

Rene Wolf came to academia rather late, having run a jazz club in London before embarking on his studies. A continuing interest in radio and German history led to a project which examined the role of radio in the divided Germany. He is currently a Teaching Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Deutsche Welle programme 'Das Lager'	p. 1
What do we hear?	p. 4
Aims and objectives	p. 6
Methodology	p. 8
Overview	p. 9
Radio and Modernity	p. 17
Radio as the agent of modernity	p. 17
Brecht and Benjamin	p. 20
Nazi radio	p. 25
Theoretical approaches	p. 32
Radio and ideology	p. 34
Considerations	p. 40
Radio and the Holocaust	p. 46
Broadcasts from the Nuremberg Trials	p. 46
Prosecutions after Nuremberg	p. 59
Programmes preceding the Auschwitz Trial	p. 69
Eichmann	p. 83
The Globke issue	p. 84
Radio and the Auschwitz Trial	p. 97
Preparations	p. 97
On air	p. 101
Broadcasts during the Trial	p. 107
Axel Eggebrecht	p. 126
The aftermath	p. 137
Radio and Memory	p. 146
Memory makers and memory users	p. 146
Memory makers (East)	p. 154
Memory makers (West)	p. 160
Memory users (East)	p. 167
Memory users (West)	p. 176
Radio: making memory usable	p. 198
Radio and History	p. 202
A return to the Deutsche Welle programme	p. 202
Radio as history	p. 214
Notes	p. 220
Appendix	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 268
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