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Examines The Moral And Political Controversy Surrounding President Reagan's Intention To Visit A Cemetery In Bitburg, Germany, In 1985 During A Visit Commemorating The Fortieth Anniversary Of The End Of World War Ii And The Opening Of The Concentration Camps. The Discovery That The Cemetery Also Contained A Small Group Of Graves Of Ss Officers Prompted Protests By Jews And American Veterans. Introduction : 1985 / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- I. Essays : Bitburg As Symbol / Raul Hilberg -- Some German Struggles With Memory / Saul Friedländer -- Defusing The Past : A Politio-cultural Tract / Jürgen Habermas -- The Reactions In France : The Sounds Of Silence / Henry Rousso -- Bitburg : The American Scene / William Bole -- The Christian World Goes To Bitburg / A. Roy Eckardt -- Another Revisionism : Popular Culture And The Changing Image Of The Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Memory And Monument / James E. Young -- What Does Coming To Terms With The Past Mean? / Theodore W. Adorno -- The Memory Of Offense / Primo Levi -- Ii. Sunday, 5 May 1985: The Events At Bitburg And Bergen-belsen : The Two Ceremonies At Bergen-belsen / John Tagliabue -- The Peace Of The Dead / Avraham Weiss -- Reagan J

Author

Geoffrey H. Hartman

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253203830

Subjects

History, Travel, Humanities