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Preliminary Material /Mary Fulbrook -- Introduction: The Character and Limits of the Civilizing Process /Mary Fulbrook -- Laughter and the Process of Civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival /Sebastian Coxon -- (Un-)Civilized Language: The Regulation of Cursing and Swearing in German through the Ages. /Geraldine Horan -- Civilization, Un-civilization, Transgression On Goethe's Faust /Martin Swales -- The Pre-Colonial Imagination: Race and Revolution in Literature of the Napoleonic Period /Susanne Kord -- Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars /Mark Hewitson -- Civilization in the Dining Room: Table Manners in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks /Ernest Schonfield -- The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self: Music Chambers in Wilhelmine Germany /Maiken Umbach -- Norbert Elias, the Confusions of Törlefi and the Ethics of Shamelessness /Stephanie Bird -- Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt /Mererid Puw Davies -- Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR /Mary Fulbrook -- List of Illustrations /Mary Fulbrook.

AbstractOnly a minority of Germans involved in Nazi crimes were prosecuted after the war, and the transnational history of trials is only beginning to be explored. Even less well understood are the ways in which those who were tainted by complicity reframed their personal life stories. Millions had been willing facilitators, witting beneficiaries, or passive (and perhaps unhappily helpless) witnesses of Nazi persecution; many had been actively involved in sustaining Nazi rule; perhaps a quarter of a million had personally killed Jewish civilians, and several million had direct knowledge of genocide. How did these people re-envision their own lives after Nazism? And how did they reinterpret their own former behaviors—their actions and inaction—in light of public confrontations with Nazi crimes and constructions of "perpetrators" in trials? Going beyond well-trodden debates about "overcoming the past," this paper explores patterns of personal memory among East and West Germans after Nazism.