| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: The German trauma. 2000. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements --List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- My friend, a heroine of France -- Stolen children -- Generation without a past -- Colloquy with a conscience -- Men who whitewash Hitler -- Hitler wave -- Fakes and hoaxes: Hitler diaries -- Great globocnik hunt -- Private lives -- Three sins of Syberberg -- Truth is, I loved Hitler -- Leni -- Kurt Waldheim's mental block -- Man who said 'no' -- Albert Speer -- Children of the reich -- Case of John Demjanjuk -- Last witness to Hitler -- Final reflections: April 2001 -- Note on the text -- Index. |
| Summary |
In The Healing Wound, Sereny presents a vital historical account of Germany in the 20th century, exploring the guilt which is in many ways the legacy of Nazism. She argues that despite the achievements of Germany since 1945, the awareness of the horrors committed in their name remains in the minds of Germans to this day-an open wound of historical culpability. 32 photos. Few individuals have written about the evil forces of Hitler's Germany with the immediacy & urgency of Gitta Sereny. She first encountered the Nazis in 1934 at age eleven when she witnessed a Nuremberg rally, & in 1940 she was in Paris when the Blitzkrieg overran the Allied armies. In 1942, warned of impending arrest for having hidden British pilots, she fled across the Pyrenees. The Healing Wound combines political statement with the haunting personal memories of one of the twentieth century's most relentless witnesses. |
| Subject |
National socialism -- Psychological aspects.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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National characteristics, German.
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War criminals -- Germany.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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| Added Author |
Sereny, Gitta.
German trauma.
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| ISBN |
0393044289 |
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