Representing the good German in literature and culture after 1945 : altruism and moral ambiguity / edited by Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans as evil. That search has never really stopped. In the past few years, we...
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Rochester, New York :
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Re-presenting the good German: philosophical reflections / Maeve Cook
- "Görings glorreichste Günstlinge": the portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gustaf Gründgens as good Germans in the West German media since 1945 / Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský
- From Hitler's champion to German of the century: on the representation and reinvention of Max Schmeling / Jon Hughes
- Wilhelm Krützfeld and other "good" constables in police station 16 in Hackescher Markt, Berlin / Eoin Burke
- The "good German" between silence and artistic deconstruction of an inhumane world: Johannes Bobrowski's "Mäusefest" and "Der Tänze malige" / Sabine Egger
- Saints and sinners: the good German and her others in Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame / Matthias Uecker
- Being human: good Germans in postwar German film / Christiane Schönfeld
- "The banality of good"?: good Nazis in contemporary German film / Alexandra Ludewig
- Memories of good and evil in Sophie Scholl-die letzten Tage / Coman Hamilton
- Deconstructing the good German in French bestsellers published in the aftermath of the Second World War / Manuel Bragança
- Macbeth, not Henry V: Shakespearean allegory in the construction of Vercor's good German / Kevin de Ornellas
- A good Irish German: in praise of Hugo Hamilton's mother / Joachim Fischer
- Shades of gray: the beginnings of the postwar moral compromise in Joseph Kanon's The good German / Pól Ó Dochartaigh.