by Steven Fligelstone (Author), W. Manoschek (Author), A. Pollak (Author)
How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time the history and image of the German 'Wehrmacht' and the debates in Austria and Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war crimes of the 'Wehrmacht' during World War II.
Author Biography
SABINE LOITFELLNER is a historian and Research Fellow at the Austrian Research Centre for Postwar Trials (FS&N) GUENTHER SANDNER is Director of the Austrian Science Fund(FWF)-supported research project 'Democratisation of Knowledge: Otto Neurath's Project in the Context of Different Scientific Cultures'. HEIDEMARIE UHL is a historian and fellow in the research programme 'Places of Commemoration' at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.