Germans as Victims : Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany

Introduction: German Victimhood at the Turn of the Millenium; The Politics of the Past in the 1950´s: Rhetorics of Victimisation in East and west Germany; Victims in uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s; Taboo or Tradition? The "German as Victims´Theme in West Germany until the early 1990´s; Victims in Uniform; The continually Suffering Nation? Cinematic representation of German victimhod; The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy: from the "Historians Dispute to German Suffering; The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden; Victims of the Berlin Wall; The Victims of Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change in German Commemorative Politics; Representations of German Wartime Suffering in Recent Fiction; Air War Legacies: From dresden to Baghdad; From the Margins to the Center? The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in germany; on Taboos, Traumas and Other Myths: Why the Debate about german Victims of The SecondWorld War is not a Historians ´Controversy