Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

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<p> Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Dirk Schumann</strong> is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Georg-August University, Göttingen. His most recent books include<a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SchumannRaising"><em>Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child: The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective</em></a> (Berghahn, 2010, edited),<a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SchumannPolitical"><em>Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 19181933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War</em></a> (Berghahn, 2009).</p>

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