Haunted City
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Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
Neil Gregor
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Nuremberg—a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher—has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Nazism. This book explores how the Nuremberg community has confronted the implications of the genocide in which it participated, while also dealing with the appalling suffering of ordinary German citizens during and after the war. Neil Gregor’s compelling account of the painful process of remembering and acknowledging the Holocaust offers new insights into postwar memory in Germany and how it has operated.
Gregor takes a novel approach to the theme of memory, commemoration, and remembrance, and he proposes a highly nuanced explanation for the failure of Germans to face up to the Holocaust for years after the war. His book makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Germany.
Neil Gregor is reader in modern German history, University of Southampton, and author of the prize-winning Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich, published by Yale University Press. He lives in Southampton, UK.
"In this meticulously researched and elegantly written book, Neil Gregor has set a new benchmark in the voluminous literature on Germany's 'coming to terms with the past'. Haunted City is a study of rare sensitivity that evocatively traces the challenges for ethics in times of trauma." - Dirk Moses, author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past
"An enormously learned, astute and nuanced study, based on an extraordinary number of sources. Neil Gregor has a first-rate and original grasp of how memory works, changes and leaks. Haunted City is an ambitious and important book, an enduring contribution to the understanding of postwar Germany." - Peter Fritzsche, author of Life and Death in the Third Reich
“… a meticulously researched … compelling account … Haunted City is a study of rare perceptiveness, one that offers a nuanced analysis of how post-war German attitudes towards the darkest chapter in their national history changed over time … an excellent study that is both scholarly and, ultimately, even uplifting." - Robert Gewarth, Irish Times
Publication Date: January 27, 2009
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