"Coming to Terms with the Past": Illusions of Remembering, Ways of Forgetting Nazism in West Germany

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Previous articleNext article No AccessReview Article"Coming to Terms with the Past": Illusions of Remembering, Ways of Forgetting Nazism in West GermanyAlf LüdtkeAlf Lüdtke Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 65, Number 3Sep., 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/244674 Views: 65Total views on this site Citations: 23Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1993 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel Forgetting the Great War? The Langemarck Myth between Cultural Oblivion and Critical Memory in (West) Germany, 1945–2014, The Journal of Modern History 94, no.11 (Mar 2022): 1–41.https://doi.org/10.1086/718269Nerijus Milerius, Agnė Narušytė, Violeta Davoliūtė, Lukas Brašiškis Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe, (Aug 2022): 11–36.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07135-5_2Violeta Davoliūtė Cold War cinema and the traumatic turn in Europe: Fact (1980) as a Soviet mirror of the Holocaust film, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 14, no.11 (Feb 2020): 57–71.https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2020.1711612Péter Apor, Tamás Kende, Michala Lônčíková, Valentin Săndulescu Post-World War II anti-Semitic pogroms in East and East Central Europe: collective violence and popular culture, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 26, no.66 (Oct 2019): 913–927.https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2019.1611744Karl Figlio Conflicts of Remembering: The Historikerstreit, (Oct 2017): 119–143.https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59591-1_6Carmen Schmidt A comparison of civil religion and remembrance culture in Germany and Japan, Asian Journal of German and European Studies 1, no.11 (Oct 2016).https://doi.org/10.1186/s40856-016-0010-1Alexandra Oeser Penser les rapports de domination avec Alf Lüdtke, Sociétés contemporaines N° 99-100, no.33 (Jan 2016): 5–16.https://doi.org/10.3917/soco.099.0005Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser L'Histoire comme science sociale, Sociétés contemporaines N° 99-100, no.33 (Jan 2016): 169–191.https://doi.org/10.3917/soco.099.0169Jelena Obradović-Wochnik Serbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and ‘Coming to Terms with the Past’, (Jan 2013): 210–229.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296252_13Mladen Ostojić Facing the Past while Disregarding the Present? Human Rights NGOs and Truth-Telling in Post-Milošević Serbia, (Jan 2013): 230–247.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296252_14Karl Figlio A psychoanalytic reflection on collective memory as a psychosocial enclave: Jews, German national identity, and splitting in the German psyche, International Social Science Journal 62, no.203-204203-204 (Jan 2012): 161–177.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2011.01801.xEric Brian, Marie Jaisson Selected bibliography of Memory Studies, International Social Science Journal 62, no.203-204203-204 (Jan 2012): 199–204.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2011.01803.xBernhard Rieger Schulden der Vergangenheit?, (Mar 2018): 185–208.https://doi.org/10.7788/boehlau.9783412213459.185John E. Davidson The Façade of Anstalt Deutschland, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 85, no.33 (Sep 2010): 257–264.https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2010.507598Valentin Rauer Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial, (May 2006): 257–282.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616839.009John R. Eidson Between heritage and countermemory: Varieties of historical representation in a West German community, American Ethnologist 32, no.44 (Jan 2008): 556–575.https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.556Jon Elster Closing the Books, 6 (Nov 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607011 Neil Gregor “The Illusion of Remembrance”: The Karl Diehl Affair and the Memory of National Socialism in Nuremberg, 1945–1999 Gregor, The Journal of Modern History 75, no.33 (Jul 2015): 590–633.https://doi.org/10.1086/380239David Crew Remembering German Pasts: Memory in German History, 1871–1989, Central European History 33, no.22 (Dec 2008): 217–234.https://doi.org/10.1163/156916100746310Tara Brabazon, Paul Stock ’We love you Ireland’: riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory, Irish Studies Review 7, no.33 (Apr 2008): 301–311.https://doi.org/10.1080/09670889908455641C.M. Clark West Germany confronts the nazi past: Some recent debates on the early postwar era, 1945–1960, The European Legacy 4, no.11 (Feb 1999): 113–130.https://doi.org/10.1080/10848779908579949Steven E. Aschheim Culture and Catastrophe, (Jan 1996): 1–30.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24401-0_1Andy Wood Introduction, (): 1–42.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034739.002