Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-century GermanyAlon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich. |
Contents
of Killing in the First and Second World Wars | 25 |
The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of | 65 |
Cremation in Late Imperial | 93 |
Disposing of the Dead in East Germany 19451990 | 113 |
Death at the Munich Olympics | 129 |
The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer | 151 |
Commemorating | 179 |
Laughing about Death? German Humor in the | 197 |
vii | 214 |
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