After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
ISBN-10
1805394347
ISBN-13
9781805394341
Series
After Auschwitz
Category
History
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2021-01-14
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Enrico Heitzer, Anetta Kahane, Martin Jander

Description

From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR’s legacy cannot be understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Other editions

Similar books