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Sleeping with the Enemy? A Fiction Film for German Television about the Bombing of Dresden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

David F. Crew
Affiliation:
The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

Dealing with the Nazi past has become a permanent component (some would say obsession) of contemporary German national identity. Almost every day, the German print and visual media carry stories related to Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust. Each new major anniversary sets in motion another round of discussion, argument, and controversy. Each new autobiography and each new film on Nazism generates extensive media commentary. Among the most interesting aspects of recent discussions of the Nazi past is the new prominence afforded to depictions of Germans as victims of “Hitler's War.” Nowhere has this predilection for presenting Germans as victims been more apparent and pronounced than in the flood of recent popular books and made-for-TV documentaries about the bombing war.

Type
FILM REVIEW
Copyright
© 2007 Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

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