Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe 1
5. From Victim Myth to Co-Responsibility Thesis: Nazi Rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian Memory 40
6. The Legacy of World War II in France: Mapping the Discourses of Memory 73
7. Losing the War, Winning the Memory Battle: The Legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany 102
8. Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory 147
9. New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland 177
10. What Is So Special about Switzerland? Wartime Memory as a National Ideology in the Cold War Era 210
11. Past as Present, Myth, or History? Discourses of Time and the Great Fatherland War 249
12. The Politics of Memory and the Poetics of History 284
13. Bibliography 311
14. Contributors 355
15. Index 357