The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans

by Dagmar Barnouw

Book Overview

"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse' questions taboos that the political and cultural elites in those three countries would rather leave alone.... [Barnouw] makes us understand why the maintenance of a privileged memory of the Nazi period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253220408
• ISBN13: 9780253220400
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"