Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Disturbing the Past/Disturbed by the Past - Stephanie Bird and Mary Fulbrook (both University College London, UK)
Part I - Emotional Connections
2. Troubling Issues: Guilt and Shame among Persecutors and Persecuted – Mary Fulbrook (University College London, UK)
3. Shamed by Nazi Crimes: The First Step towards Germans' Re-Education or a Catalyst for their Wish to Forget? – Ulrike Weckel (University of Giessen, Germany)
4. Ashamed About the Past: The Case of Nazi Collaborators and their Families
in Postwar Dutch Society Ismee Tames - (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands)
5. Autobiography, Moral Witnessing, and the Disturbing Memory
of Nazi Euthanasia
Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Part II - Disturbing Narratives
6. Disturbing Mending: On the Imagined Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Literature of the Second Generation – Tsila Ratner (University College London, UK)
7. Disturbing the Past: The Representation of the Waldheim Affair in Robert Schindel's Der Kalte – Katya Krylova (University of Nottingham, UK)
8. The Return of the Jew in Polish Culture – Uilleam Blacker (University College London, UK)
Part III - Fascination / Pleasure
9. Don't Mention the War – Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)
10. 'However sick a joke…': On Comedy, the Representation of Suffering, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Melodrama and Volker Koepp's Melancholy - Stephanie Bird (University College London, UK)
11. Disturbing Anselm Kiefer – Caitriona Leahy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Part IV - Better Futures? (Dis)Placing Identities
12. German Tourists in Europe and Reminders of a Disturbing Past – Julia Wagner (University College London, UK)
13. Reverberations of a Disturbing Past: Reconciliation Activities of Young West Germans in the 1960s and 1970s – Christiane Wienand (University College London, UK)
14. Disturbing Pasts and Better Futures? A Comparison of Recent Approaches to the Past among Bukovina Jews and Bukovina Germans – Gaelle Fisher (University College London, UK)
15. How to Cope with It? The Steuben Society of America's Politics of Memory and the Holocaust – Julia Lange (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Afterword: Hauntings and Revisitings across Generations - Lisa Appignanesi (King's College London, UK)
Bibliography
Index