Review: Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak & Ruth Wodak (2008). The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation

Authors

  • Dirk Rupnow Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-9.3.994

Keywords:

Critical Discourse Analysis, Holocaust, WWII, memory, representation

Abstract

The two Wehrmacht exhibitions (1995/2001) and the debates around them represent an important chapter in the history of how Germany and Austria have dealt with the Nazi past. They strongly challenge the postwar myth of an "untainted Wehrmacht" just as they changed the public perception of the Nazi genocide and its perpetrators. Ruth WODAK and her interdisciplinary team shed light on the Wehrmacht crimes during WWII as well as their subsequent reception and representation. The volume gives an excellent overview of this important part of the history and aftermath of the Holocaust. Its specific layout and structure can also serve as a paradigm for comparable studies. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs080378

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Dirk Rupnow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)

Dirk RUPNOW, geboren in Berlin, lebt und arbeitet als Historiker in Wien, derzeit als Visiting Fellow am Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) sowie als Lektor am Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien. Er ist Mitglied der Jungen Kurie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Seine Arbeitsgebiete sind Holocaust Studies, Memory Studies, Jewish Studies, Zeitgeschichte und Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

Downloads

Published

2008-07-13

How to Cite

Rupnow, D. (2008). Review: Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak & Ruth Wodak (2008). The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-9.3.994

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2008): Visual Methods

Section

FQS Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2008 Dirk Rupnow

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.