Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust

by Thomas C. Fox

Book Overview

Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self-deceptions arising from East Germany's official self-understanding as an enlightened, modern society in which Jewishness did not constitute "difference" or otherness. The study examines East German historiography of the Holocaust, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131299
• ISBN13: 9781571131294
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"