The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation

by Hannes Heer, Alexander Pollak, Walter Manoschek

How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? What strategies and taboos are employed to reconstruct wars, revolutions, torturing, mass killings and genocide in a way to make their contradiction to basic human rights and values invisible? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time, in multiple genres, the history and image of the "German Wehrmacht" and the debates in Austria and Germany...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230013236
• ISBN13: 9780230013230
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 5.7"