The World Hitler Never Made
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-84706-3 (ISBN)
What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician? Originally published in 2005, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays appearing in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany post-1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representation of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reactions to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalisation of the Nazi past in Western memory.
Gavriel Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University (Connecticut). He is a specialist in the history and memory of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. His previous publications include Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000).
Part I. The Nazis Win World War II: 1. Great Britain defeated: between resistance and collaboration; 2. The United States and the dilemmas of military intervention; 3. Germany's wartime triumph: from dystopia to normalcy; 4. Other nations: a dissenting view; Part II. Alternative Hitlers: 5. The fugitive Fuhrer and the search for justice; 6. The world without Hitler: better or worse?; Part III. Hypothetical Holocausts: 7. Hypothetical holocausts and the mistrust of memory.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.5.2005 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Studies in European History |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 830 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-84706-0 / 0521847060 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-84706-3 / 9780521847063 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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