The Collective Silence: German Identity and the Legacy of Shame - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881632635 ISBN 13: 9780881632637

Verlag: Gestalt Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The silence surrounding the Holocaust continues to prevent healing - whether of the victims, Nazis, or the generations that followed them. The telling of the stories surrounding the Holocaust - all the stories - is essential if we are to understand what happened, recognize the part of human nature that allows such atrocities to occur, and realize the hope that we can prevent it from happening again.

Seeking to shed light on the collective silence surrounding the Holocaust in Germany, the contributors offer compelling accounts, histories, and experiences that illuminate the ways in which contemporary Germans continue to grapple with the consequences of the Holocaust. Denial in the older generations, as well as anger and confusion in the younger ones, comes vividly to the surface in these evocative stories of coping and healing. Told from the vantage points both of therapists and of patients, these stories encompass the psychological plight of all those facing the legacy of genocide - from the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi official to the children of Jewish immigrants, from those raised in the Hitler Youth Movement to those born well after the war.

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Barbara Heimannsberg and Christoph J. Schmidt have private psychotherapy practices in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gestalt Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0881632635
• ISBN 13: 9780881632637
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
• Herausgeber: Heimannsberg Barbara, Schmidt Christoph J
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar