The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans

By Dagmar Barnouw

Book Overview

Sixty years after the defeat of the Nazis and the discovery ofAuschwitz, the impact of WWII on the German people remains asubject that is difficult to broach in public discourse. The experiences ofGermans civilians were little studied, as if the memories of the defeatedwere not deserving of preservation. In Germany 1945, an examination ofAllied photography of postwar Germany, Dagmar Barnouwdemonstrated one of the means by which the victors sought to imposethe burden of responsibility for World War II and the Holocaust on theGerman people as a whole. Now, in The War in the Empty Air, shedemonstrates how deeply that narrative took hold and the silence itimposed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253346517
• ISBN13: 9780253346513
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"