Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory Since the 1970s

by Jacob S Eder

In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197571867
• ISBN13: 9780197571866
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"