Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (Ghiw) (Studies in German History)

Friday, January 13, 2012

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (Ghiw) (Studies in German History)

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (Ghiw) (Studies in German History) Review

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (Ghiw) (Studies in German History) Overview

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.