Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic

Book Overview

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133933
• ISBN13: 9781571133939
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"