{"product_id":"9780253111821","title":"The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and\u003cbr\u003e emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of\u003cbr\u003e the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing\u003cbr\u003e fixation on German remorse' questions taboos that the political and cultural elites\u003cbr\u003e in those three countries would rather leave alone.... [Barnouw] makes us understand\u003cbr\u003e why the maintenance of a privileged memory of the Nazi period and World War II may\u003cbr\u003e not survive much longer.\" -- Manfred Henningsen, University of\u003cbr\u003e Hawai'i\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Germany, the reemergence of memories of wartime\u003cbr\u003e suffering is being met with intense public debate. In the United States, the recent\u003cbr\u003e translation and publication of Crabwalk by Günter Grass and The Natural History of\u003cbr\u003e Destruction by W. G. Sebald offer evidence that these submerged memories are\u003cbr\u003e surfacing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking account of these developments, Barnouw examines\u003cbr\u003e this debate about the validity and importance of German memories of war and the\u003cbr\u003e events that have occasioned it. Steering her path between the notions of\u003cbr\u003e \"victim\" and \"perpetrator,\" Barnouw seeks a place where\u003cbr\u003e acknowledgment of both the horror of Auschwitz and the suffering of the non-Jewish\u003cbr\u003e Germans can, together, create a more complete historical remembrance for postwar\u003cbr\u003e generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067708457200,"sku":"9780253111821","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253111821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}