Handbuch Nachkriegskultur

This book discusses research on the culture of postwar Germany (1945-1962). Topics such as war, destruction, homecoming, flight, expulsion, guilt, daily life, andreligion are explored systematically, using examples and by focusing on fiction, nonfiction, and film in the two German states. Historians and scholars in the field of literature and film address various core questions concerning aesthetic representation and the formation of contemporary history.