The Lasting War

Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany After 1945

By: G. Schaffer (Editor), M. Riera (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The Second World War brought suffering and trauma to the people of Europe on an unprecedented scale. While Europeans were not strangers to the harsh realities of international conflict, World War II galvanized a new range of destructive forces that shook the continent to its intellectual, psychological and material foundations. This volume addresses World War II as a common European trauma by focusing on key trans-national developments and comparing the different wars as experienced by three similar civilian populations.

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'All the articles in the book...provide a lot of insights and understandings and will be a good starting point for both academics and students who want to begin research in this still fashionable field.' - Contemporary British History

'The power of the war's memory, or 'self' and 'other', to serve as an instrument to both shape identity and measure it, has more than justified the attention it receives in this appealing collection.' - French History

'...this volume provides a timely reminder...the essays do provide an effective snapshot of recent research into the myriad ways 'memory politics' worked in post-war Europe...' - European History Quarterly

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

List of Photographs	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the Scene
When Europe Was New: Liberation and the Making of the Post-War Era	p. 17
Reconfiguring the Self
'That rubble heap near Potsdam': Pre-War Visions and Early Post-War Urban Development in Berlin	p. 47
Creating 'a nation of Resisters'? Improving French Self-Image, 1944-6	p. 67
Dad's Army, the Home Guard and the Memory of the British War Effort	p. 86
An Awkward Sense of Grief: German War Remembrance and the Role of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge	p. 100
France: A People's History, 1944-6	p. 120
French Catholics and the Liberation: Political and Religious Values	p. 133
Reconfiguring the Other
Confronting Nazi Atrocities at the End of the War: A Transnational Perspective	p. 157
Instrumentalisation - Marginalisation - Re-Evaluation: Flight and Expulsion after the Second World War in Post-War German Collective Memory	p. 173
The Church of England and the German Past, Present and Future 1944-5: A Case Study in the International Search for a 'Usable Past'	p. 188
Victims or Enemies? Italians, Refugee Jews and the Reworking of Internment Narratives in Post-War Britain	p. 207
Belsen for Beginners: The Holocaust in British Heritage	p. 226
France and Her African Empire: The Second World War and the Colonial Imagination	p. 248
Index	p. 269
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