Echoes of trauma and shame in German families : the post-World War II generations

Echoes of trauma and shame in German families : the post-World War II generations / Lina Jakob.

"How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives? For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II-to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions-was unthi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakob, Lina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Germany.
Children and war > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma > Germany.
Baby boom generation > Germany.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Psychological aspects
Baby boom generation
Children
Children and war
Psychic trauma
Germany
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Between "mastering" and "silencing" the past : public commemorations of World War II
  • "Why do you have to dig around in the past?" : conversations about World War II in German families
  • Better "sick" than "strange" : the Kriegsenkel movement and the desire to legitimize suffering
  • "Hooray, I am a Kriegsenkel!" : suffering and liberation in the age of therapy
  • The invisible wounds of war : Kriegsenkel accounts of transgenerational transmission
  • The losses and the shame of war : absence in Kriegsenkel narratives
  • Conclusion.

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