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Coping with the Nazi past

by Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis

HistoriographyConflict of generationsCongressesNew LeftNational socialismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Ethnic relationsGermany, history, 1945-1990

The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was influenced by, politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues, including prosecution for war crimes, restitution, immigration policy, health policy, reform of the police, German relations with Israel and the United States, nuclear non-proliferation, and student politics and the New Left protest movement.

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