Author(s): Roger Frie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 310
Cover......Page 1
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction - Limits of Understanding......Page 22
1 - Refuge or Exile? Searching for a New Home......Page 46
Between Hope and Despondency......Page 48
Beginnings......Page 51
Belonging......Page 56
Shared Traumatic History......Page 59
Encounters......Page 62
The Collision......Page 69
2 - Confronting the Legacy of My Grandparents......Page 73
Being and Not Being German......Page 76
Living With Discomfort......Page 80
Psychoanalytic Reflections......Page 83
The Past Endures......Page 86
Struggle With Shame......Page 88
Fear of Self-Disclosure......Page 91
3 - Shaped by History, Caught by Language......Page 94
Dancing Around Difference......Page 98
Silence or Curiosity?......Page 100
Confronting the Past......Page 102
Language and Historical Trauma......Page 104
Negotiating History......Page 108
Postscript......Page 109
4 - Whose Suffer? Narratives of Trauma......Page 112
German Suffering?......Page 116
Familiar Stories......Page 121
Hanover......Page 124
The Bomb......Page 127
The Bomb Shelter......Page 129
Hanover's Jewish Community......Page 133
Felt Memories......Page 141
Contextualizing the Past......Page 143
Peenemünde......Page 145
Trauma and Victimization......Page 150
5 - Living with the Nazi Past......Page 157
Indifference......Page 160
Continuity......Page 170
Responsibility......Page 173
Moral Obligations of Memory......Page 176
Memorializing the Holocaust......Page 179
Ambiguous Remembering......Page 184
Learned Awareness......Page 187
6 - Knowing and Not Knowing......Page 191
Remembering and Forgetting......Page 195
The Memory Gap......Page 198
Silence and Dissociation......Page 203
Seeing and Not Seeing......Page 206
Letters from Germans......Page 210
7 - Breaking the Silence......Page 216
Sitting in Judgment?......Page 218
My Grandmother......Page 225
Past, Present, Future......Page 231
Remembering and Responsibility......Page 233
Coda - Finding My Grandfather......Page 238
The Nazi Party Membership Pin......Page 241
Forced Labor and the Armaments Industry......Page 244
Military Service......Page 248
Notes......Page 253
References......Page 277
Index......Page 287
About the Author......Page 310
