Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

by Esra Özyürek

Book Overview

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany. It is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503634663
• ISBN13: 9781503634664
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"