| Abstract | "The collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal division and regain international recognition. In Pursuit of German Memory History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz examines how Germans in particular have dealt with the moral challenges of the nation's horrific past and reveals universal strategies of collective remembering and forgetting that have shaped identities and memories in many parts of the world." "Wulf Kansteiner's analysis of German history, politics, and media reveals a complex social geography of collective memory. In Pursuit of German Memory underscores the fact that German memories of Nazism, like many other collective memories, combine two seemingly contradictory qualities: they are highly mediated and part of a global exchange of images and story fragments but, at the same time, they can be reproduced only locally, in narrowly circumscribed networks of communication."--Jacket.
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