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Televising Tainted History: Recent TV Docudrama ( Dresden, March of Millions, Die Gustloff ) and the Charge of Revisionism
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 65–84.
Published: 01 February 2011
... for the tainted war experience of German civilians. This article explores the tensions between the new televisuality of German suffering and the persisting charge of revisionism leveled by some journalists and scholars at the blockbuster TV docudramas. Drawing on Aleida Assmann's deconstruction of the seemingly...
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The Ruined Picture Postcard: Dresden's Visually Encoded History and the Television Drama Dresden
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 85–113.
Published: 01 February 2011
...-and-after pictures of the city were important national examples of the cruelty of war toward the German civilian population and against German cultural treasures, and the photographs became iconographic images of suffering. Dresden 's plot offers a more complex view of the bombings and the city they struck...
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Teaching Trauma and Responsibility: World War II in West German History Textbooks
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 135–153.
Published: 01 February 2011
... into what most pupils encoun-
tered in their formative years.
Remembering Germans as Victims
There was no shortage of attention to the aerial bombardment of German cities
and the subsequent suffering of the civilian population in postwar textbooks.
They addressed this issue unflinchingly...
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Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
...—did not survive. The major deportations
(the numbers are unclear) continued right up until Germany invaded Russia in
June 1941.5 By this twist of history, which intersected in complicated ways
with the general mass evacuation (rather than “deportation”) of civilians,
including up to two...
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Against Memory as Justice
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 135–160.
Published: 01 August 2006
... disreputable memory of the Allied destruction of German cit-
ies, a memory of German victimization held by many to mitigate improperly
the crimes of the Holocaust. Describing the incomprehensible and largely
unspoken violence of civilian annihilation in Hamburg, Cologne, and other
cities, Sebald...
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Introduction
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of a new, specifically postunification third-generation televisual dis-
course on the suffering of German civilians at the end of World War II. Her
initial step involves a critique of Bill Niven’s powerful dismissal of those very
same films, which assails them for rehearsing the exculpatory aims...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2007
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stood, and that most challenges our own complacency. Accordingly, the real
subject of ‘Downfall,’ Mr. Ganz’s intriguing, creepily charismatic performance
notwithstanding, is not Hitler at all, but rather his followers: the offi cers,
bureaucrats and loyal civilians who were with him at the end.”5...
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Between Dramatization and Epicization: The Portrayal of Nazi Crimes in Exemplary German Films from the Late 1940s to the 1970s
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 2007
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of Nazi society but have been more or less absorbed into postwar society. They
have exchanged their uniforms for civilian clothes and are busy leading their
civilian lives, more concerned with effi ciency than with any possible guilt.
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Neutral Angles: Mamlachtiut (Etatism) and Law in the Israeli Court, 1947–1961
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 41–67.
Published: 01 November 2015
... civilians. Simultaneously, news from the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe pointed to the reemergence of classic anti-Semitism in the form of the
show trials conducted by Stalin against “Zionist conspirators” in the Slansky
trial of 1951–52 in Czechoslovakia and the trial of prominent Moscow doctors...
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Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and the governance of foreign lands were aided by officials native to those countries, who took an active part in horrific crimes. Although Germans civilians did little to prevent the crimes perpetrated in their names, some apologists maintained that civilians in many other countries were likewise at fault. The sad...
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Shame and beyond Shame
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 155–164.
Published: 01 November 2012
... chambers and the gold
stolen from the victims, for the roll-call, and for the Puff, for frightened
civilians and for the ‘old numbers13 Clearly, he strived to find a “formula”
beyond the “sense of horror and loathing and contempt” to capture the real-
ity of Auschwitz.
In addition, the voice...
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Brainwashed! Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Postwar United States
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 145–164.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Destruction of Men’s Minds (1951) and Brainwash-
ing: The Story of Men Who Defi ed It (1956).1 Hunter initially conceived of
brainwashing to account for the mass “reeducation” of civilians in Maoist
China. Largely on the basis of interviews with Chi Sze-chen, a recent graduate
of North China People’s...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Hiroshima
and Nagasaki are among them: in every case, the destruction was the end
result of military strategies engineered to maximize civilian casualties and
flatten the built environment as much as possible. Modernism’s flaneurs never
had to navigate mounds of rubble or worry about falling bombs...
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A “Political Struwwelpeter”? John Heartfield's Early Film Animation and the Crisis of Photographic Representation
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... clue is the stunning violence
of both projects. Heartfi eld’s and Grosz’s “patriotic” productions were ulti-
mately meant to expose mass audiences of civilians and soldiers to Europe’s
gruesome confl ict. Dada’s fi rst evening was intended to impress its audience
13. Herzfelde had left his...
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“The Great Imitator”: Syphilis and Clandestine Prostitution in Otto Dix’s Die Witwe Watercolors
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Whether the films were intended for military or civilian audiences, many of them featured moulages bearing obvious signs of disease, such as syphilitic rash ( fig. 5 ), and unflinching clinical shots of infected sexual organs and untreated lesions, including syphilitic sores ( fig. 6 ). 70 For instance...
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Billy Wilder's Cold War Berlin
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 31–47.
Published: 01 August 2010
... people from all
over the city, German civilians and occupying forces alike, meet to barter.
Here a Russian soldier excitedly buys three Mickey Mouse watches from his
American counterpart for seven hundred dollars apiece; here, as well, our
somewhat jaded protagonist Pringle will trade his newly...
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The Antigone Effect: Reinterring the Dead of Night and Fog in the German Autumn
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... distinct moments
in German history merge. The documentary images that Kluge eventually
inserts include German civilians from bombed-out cities and soldiers either
killed or taken prisoner at Stalingrad. These two sites signify for Kluge the
central catastrophes in the film—and the constitutive...
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Perpetrator Research through the Camera Lens: Nazis and Their Crimes in the Films of Romuald Karmakar
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 75–86.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., Zapatka was provided only with a reconstructed script
of the oral speech, not with the sound recording itself. Against a neutral back-
drop, wearing dark civilian clothes, the actor stands behind a lectern, with
only a glass of water and the manuscript in front of him as props.12 Multiple
cameras...
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Manufacturing Discontent: John Heartfield's Mass Medium
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 53–88.
Published: 01 August 2009
... the barricades erected by the district’s inhabitants. Thirty civilians
were killed, more than half of them innocent bystanders; nearly two hundred
were wounded; and more than twelve hundred were arrested.
Blutmai 1929 proved a turning point for both German working-class
consciousness and the German...
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The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94.
Published: 01 August 2007
... about the morality of the Allied bomb-
ing campaign against German cities, a discussion saturated by graphic
images of charred mounds of civilians that excited thoughts of Germans as
victims of the British, the Americans, and perhaps even the Nazis.15 Even the
Nobel laureate Günter Grass signaled...
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