When it comes to German efforts to confront the Nazi past, conventional approaches tend to focus on solemn statements and well-meant monuments. Andrew I. Port looks instead at the very concrete ways in which postwar Germans embraced the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust-above all in response to other genocides that took place elsewhere after 1945. This innovative approach makes the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear.
Andrew I. Port is a professor of history at Wayne State University and former editor-in-chief of the flagship journal Central European History. He earned his BA at Yale University and his PhD at Harvard University. Port is the author of Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust (2023), Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic (2007), and co-editor, with Mary Fulbrook, of Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (2013).
With comments from Hope M. Harrison & Jeffrey Herf.
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27 сен 2024
