History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2008

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2008

The incredible transformation of Dr. Bessel: alternative memories of the Great War in German War films of the late 1920s.(Report)
March 22, 2008... The memory of World War I had a decisive influence on the formation of German nationalism in the years preceding the rise of National Socialism. Analyzing popular German films of the 1920s, this article suggests that despite the significant...

"Grasping the spokes of the wheel of history": Gerstein, Eichmann and the genocide of the Jews.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the access to new archives previously kept secret by the Soviet Union, historians of Nazism have had a growing tendency to believe that the historical narrative should be based exclusively on archives and...

Editor's note.(issues of memory and personal testimony)(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... Central issues of memory and personal testimony--their vagaries and internal contradictions, but also the way scholarly traditions come to terms with them--are at the center of the first two articles in this issue: Thomas Trezise's...

Between history and psychoanalysis: a case study in the reception of Holocaust survivor testimony.
March 22, 2008... Referring to a well-known case study from the work of Dori Laub, this article examines the conflict between history and psychoanalysis as frameworks for the reception of Holocaust survivor testimony. It focuses especially on the status of...

"The free-masonry of sorrow"? English national identities and the memorialization of the Great War in Britain, 1919-1931.
March 22, 2008... This article explores the national identities that were constructed in Britain in and around memorial activity in the aftermath of the Great War, and attempts to set them in context. It is argued that the same memorial acts could suggest...