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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Remapping Relief and Rescue:
Flight, Displacement, and International Aid
for Jewish Refugees during World War II
Atina Grossmann
This article, part of a work in progress, seeks to suggest another reading of war
and Holocaust...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 135–153.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Brian M. Puaca The development of West German history textbooks from 1945 through the mid-1960s offers a way to understand what young West Germans were supposed to learn about their country's role in and experience of World War II. Several of the most widely used history textbooks during...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 169–195.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the American Law Institute's World War II–era declaration of human rights, which served as an important foundation for later charters on human rights. By explaining Loewenstein's conceptions of politics and rights, this article uncovers the foundational influence of aggressive anticommunism on the concept...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Susan Rubin Suleiman Purporting to be the first-person narrative of a former SS officer writing many years after World War II, Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes , published in France in 2006, became the biggest best seller of the year and won the most prestigious French literary prize, the Prix...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 35–55.
Published: 01 February 2017
... as an art dealer, first independently and later on behalf of Hitler himself. The extensive, international art network Gurlitt had developed beforehand became trade routes for looted and seized art, as well as the hedge for his comeback in post–World War II Germany. They are the fine lines between merits...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2009
... influential adviser and university teacher at the edge of Europe, Bonatz felt unwelcome in his own country after the end of World War II, and it took him until 1954 to return permanently to his homeland. The case of Paul Bonatz, who wandered between two worlds for nearly eleven years, is an exceptionally...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 173–195.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Dora Osborne Abstract Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (2014) is set in the immediate aftermath of World War II but dedicated to Fritz Bauer, the man credited with initiating the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials almost two decades later. In light of other recent films about Bauer, this article argues...
Journal Article
Restitution as Diagnosis: Political Aspects of the “Trophy Art” Problem and Russian-German Relations
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 75–86.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Konstantin Akinsha During World War II the Soviet Union did not join the Allied restitution effort. Instead, more than two and a half million objects (not counting millions of books) were transported to the Soviet Union from its zone of occupation in Germany and from other European countries...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Axel Bangert This article examines how documentary film in reunified Germany has engaged with the Nazi past of “ordinary Germans” and their descendants. It analyzes films produced since 1990 that portray personal views of the period, including those of World War II veterans, Hitler's secretary...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 61–82.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Yaacob Dweck This article traces the connections between Gershom Scholem and the United States. It opens with a narrative history of Scholem's visits to the United States before and after World War II and then discusses the reception of his postwar writings in the United States. Finally, it turns...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Frederic Ponten Abstract This article details the brief collaboration between Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art during World War II as an intriguing episode in intellectual history, touching on film and media studies, anthropology, and German...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 107–124.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Heimat fills a gap left open in German literature since Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus by presenting a fictional portrayal of music's history after World War II. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 Out of Tune: Music, Postwar Politics, and
Edgar Reitz’s Die zweite Heimat...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 181–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Sven-Erik Rose This article traces the vexed reception of one document from the Oyneg Shabes archive, the vast underground archive assembled in the Warsaw Ghetto under Emanuel Ringelblum's leadership and largely recovered after World War II. Yehoshue Perle's Khurbn Varshe ( Destruction of Warsaw...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jennifer Fay In 1959 Theodor W. Adorno asked, “What does working through the past mean?” Post–World War II German society and much of Western Europe was in the full throttle of the economic miracle and bent on normalizing the present by suppressing the Nazi past and the Holocaust. Adorno’s...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
Published: 01 February 2020
... during World War II and thus resisted the Nazis, it is a highly contaminated space, where local battles took place and hidden graves are ubiquitous. The article examines the representation of these tainted landscapes in Haderlap’s novel. It emphasizes the contaminated soulscapes of the portrayed...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 71–102.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of National Socialism and World War II, and the rise of musical “authenticism” as part of a general movement toward postwar reconstruction of an allegedly unsullied past. While there remain undeniable differences between Furtwängler's late Romanticism and Adorno's Marxist modernism, their conceptions...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 155–180.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945–1960, ed. Giles
Scott-Smith and Hans Krabbendam (London: Cass, 2003), n.p. Susanna Schrafstetter addresses the
persistence of postwar concerns within the legacy of World War II in West German Cold War debates
on nuclear rearmament, although she...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of modernity during World
War II was a very German caricature that did not include ideas about the
extension of citizenship, British antislavery, American abolitionism, femi-
nism in Europe and the United States, and the rule of law. Theirs was moder-
nity without liberal democratic ideas...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 65–84.
Published: 01 February 2011
...—Dresden (2006), March
of Millions (Die Flucht, 2007), and Die Gustloff (2008)—have inaugurated
new rules for engaging with the tainted war experience of German civilians
at the end of World War II.1 Representing the latest effort to reclaim Ger-
many’s haunted experience of displacement...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... This article sets out to explore two competing modes of memory that developed in West Germany in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. The term mode of memory refers not to the specific content of the memory but to the practice of memory as it is derived from its ultimate objective. The first mode...
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