War Stories(English, Paperback, Moeller Robert G.)

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War Stories(English, Paperback, Moeller Robert G.) is written by Moeller Robert G. and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520239105 (ISBN 10) and 9780520239104 (ISBN 13).

Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selective remembering" that took place among West Germans during the postwar years: in particular, they remembered crimes committed against Germans, crimes that--according to some contemporary accounts--were comparable to the crimes of Germans against Jews. Moeller draws on a wide range of U.S. and German government documents, political debates, film archives, letters, oral histories, and newspaper accounts.