Hi Hitler! : how the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.
2015
D757 .R685 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Hi Hitler! : how the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.
ISBN
9781107423978 (paperback)
110742397X (paperback)
9781107073999 (hardcover)
1107073995 (hardcover)
9781316191576
110742397X (paperback)
9781107073999 (hardcover)
1107073995 (hardcover)
9781316191576
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
x, 466 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
D757 .R685 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
943.086
Summary
"The Third Reich's legacy is in flux. For much of the post-war period, the Nazi era has been viewed moralistically as an exceptional period of history intrinsically different from all others. Since the turn of the millennium, however, this view has been challenged by a powerful wave of normalization. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld charts this important international trend by examining the shifting representation of the Nazi past in contemporary western intellectual and cultural life. Focusing on works of historical scholarship, popular novels, counterfactual histories, feature films, and Internet websites, he identifies notable changes in the depiction of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the figure of Adolf Hitler himself. By exploring the origins of these works and assessing the controversies they have sparked in the United States and Europe, Hi Hitler! offers a fascinating and timely analysis of the shifting status of the Nazi past in western memory"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-454) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
A "good war" no more : the new World War II revisionism
From history to memory and back again : debating the Holocaust's uniqueness
Probing the limits of speculation : counterfactualism and the Holocaust
Nazis that never were : new alternate histories of the Third Reich
Humanizing Hitler : the Führer in contemporary film
Between tragedy and farce : Nazism on the Internet
Conclusion.
A "good war" no more : the new World War II revisionism
From history to memory and back again : debating the Holocaust's uniqueness
Probing the limits of speculation : counterfactualism and the Holocaust
Nazis that never were : new alternate histories of the Third Reich
Humanizing Hitler : the Führer in contemporary film
Between tragedy and farce : Nazism on the Internet
Conclusion.