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Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia

Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia

Hansen, Randall
Wirsching, Andreas
Saupe, Achim

Hardcover

Series: German and European Studies

German HistoryHolocaustWorld War II

ISBN10: 1487528213
ISBN13: 9781487528218
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Sep 23 2021
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims' histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events.

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