Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period. Front cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding the "Good...
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Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period. Front cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding the "Good German" -- 1: Re-Presenting the Good German: Philosophical Reflections -- 2: "Görings glorreichste Günstlinge": The Portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gustaf Gründgens as Good Germans in the West German Media since 1945 -- 3: From Hitler's Champion to German of the Century: On the Representation and Reinvention of Max Schmeling -- 4: Wilhelm Krützfeld and Other "Good" Constables in Police Station 16 in Hackescher Markt, Berlin -- 5: The "Good German" between Silence and Artistic Deconstruction of an Inhumane World: Johannes Bobrowski's "Mäusefest" and "Der Tänzer Malige" -- 6: Saints and Sinners: The Good German and Her Others in Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame -- 7: Being Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film -- 8: "The Banality of Good"? Good Nazis in Contemporary German Film -- 9: Memories of Good and Evil in Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage -- 10: Deconstructing the "Good German" in French Best Sellers Published in the Aftermath of the Second World War -- 11: Macbeth, Not Henry V: Shakespearean Allegory in the Construction of Vercors's "Good German" -- 12: A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother -- 13: Shades of Gray: The Beginnings of the Postwar Moral Compromise in Joseph Kanon's The Good German -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index -- Backcover.
