Introduction : disturbing pasts / Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Julia Wagner and Christiane Wienand
PART I. EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS. Guilt and shame among communities of experience, connection and identification / Mary Fulbrook
Shamed by Nazi crimes : the first step towards Germans' re-education or a catalyst for their wish to forget? / Ulrike Weckel
Ashamed about the past : the case of Nazi collaborators and their families in postwar Dutch society / Ismee Tames
Autobiography, moral witnessing, and the disturbing memory of Nazi euthanasia / Susanne C. Knittel
PART II. DISTURBING NARRATIVES. Disturbing mending : on the imagined third generation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli literature of the second generation / Tsila Ratner
Disturbing the past : the representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte / Katya Krylova
The return of the Jew in Polish culture / Uilleam Blacker
PART III. FASCINATION / PLEASURE. Don't mention the war / Julian Petley
'However sick a joke ... ' : on comedy, the representation of suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy / Stephanie Bird
Disturbing Anselm Kiefer / Caitriona Leahy
PART IV. BETTER FUTURES? : (DIS)PLACING IDENTITIES. German tourists in Europe and reminders of a disturbing past / Julia Wagner
Reverberations of a disturbing past : reconciliation activities of young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s / Christiane Wienand
Disturbing pasts and better futures? : a comparison of recent approaches to the past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans / Gaelle Fisher
How to cope with it? : the Steuben Society of America's politics of memory and the Holocaust / Julia Lange
Afterword : hauntings and revisitings / Lisa Appignanesi.