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New Books on Memory, History and the Second World War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

DOUGLAS C. PEIFER
DOUGLAS C. PEIFER*
Affiliation:
Department of Strategy, room 1017C, Air War College, 325 Chennault Circle, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL 36112, United States; douglas.peifer@maxwell.af.mil.
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Contemporary European History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 235 - 244
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References

1 Maier, Charles S., The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)Google Scholar; Maier, Charles S., ‘A Surfeit of Memory? Reflections on History, Melancholy, and Denial’, History and Memory, 5, 2 (winter 1993), 136–52Google Scholar.

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3 H-Memory, www.h-net.org/~memory/ (last visited 30 December 2008).

4 Book reviews abound on the topic. For some of the more recent review essays and articles on memory regimes, see Hampton, Mary and Peifer, Douglas, ‘History, Memory, and International Relations: Breaking Taboos in the Berlin Republic’, German Studies Review, 30, 2 (2007), 371Google Scholar; Dejung, Christof, ‘A Past that Refuses to Pass: The Commemoration of the Second World War and the Holocaust’, Journal of Contemporary History, 43, 4 (2008), 701CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Nolan, Mary, ‘Air Wars, Memory Wars’, Central European History, 38, 1 (2005), 7–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Judt, Tony, ‘From the House of the Dead: On Modern European Memory’, New York Review of Books, 52, 15 (2005), 12–16Google Scholar; Confino, Alon, ‘Telling about Germany: Narratives of Memory and Culture’, Journal of Modern History, 76, 2 (2004), 389–416CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Langenbacher, Eric, ‘Changing Memory Regimes in Contemporary Germany?’, German Politics and Society, 21, 67 (2003), 46–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cole, Tim, ‘Review Article: Scales of Memory, Layers of Memory: Recent Works on Memories of the Second World War and the Holocaust’, Journal of Contemporary History, 37, 1 (2002), 129–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie, ‘Perspectives on War in the Twentieth Century’, Contemporary European History, 17, 4 (2008), 567–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Maier, ‘Surfeit of Memory?’, 150–1.

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11 Confino, Alon, The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)Google Scholar; Confino, Alon, ‘Edgar Reitz's Heimat and German Nationhood: Film, Memory, and Understandings of the Past’, German History, 16, 2 (1998), 185–208CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, ‘Telling about Germany’, Confino and Fritzsche, Work of Memory

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13 For a fuller discussion of the book see my H-German review of Eingebrannt ins Gedächtnis: Hamburgs Gedenken an Luftkrieg und Kriegsende 1943 bis 2005, www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22910 (last visited 30 Dec. 2008).

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