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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 1. Imperiled Democracies: History and the Legacy of the Weimar Republic for the 21st Century -- Kathleen Canning -- Chapter 2. Intellectuals and the People: Conversation Forums and West German Democracy in the 1950s -- Sean A. Forner -- Chapter 3. Listening Towards Democracy: Axel Eggebrecht and the Postwar Radio Play -- Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 4. Amateur Democrats -- Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Chapter 5. No Country for Old Minds: The Psychology of West Germany's Democratization -- Anthony D. Kauders -- Chapter 6. Democratic Reeducation: Hermann Broch's Reflections on Postwar Germany -- Paul Michael L©ơtzeler -- Chapter 7. Learning to Read Again: Thomas Mann, the U.S. Army's POW Reeducation Efforts, and the Role of Literature in a Democratic Germany -- Tobias Boes -- Chapter 8. First Comes the Feeding, Then Comes the Democratization: Food, Hunger, and Democracy in the early FRG -- Alice Weinreb -- Chapter 9. Ruth Woodsmall, US Women's Affairs and Democratic Practice in the Early Federal Republic of Germany -- Darcy Buerkle -- Chapter 10. Redemptive Whiteness: Racism and Democratization, or Figurations of Germanness in 1950s West German Cinema -- Maja Figge -- Chapter 11. Foundational Narratives: West German Nation-Building Through State-Sponsored PR Films, 1953-1963 -- Jan Uelzmann -- Chapter 12. "A Memory Goes to Work": The Visual Promise of the Marshall Plan -- Frank Mehring -- .

"In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national contexts. At the same time, recent work has brought the Holocaust into the arena of the transnational, leading to a crossroads between localized and global understandings of Holocaust memory. Further complicating the issue are generational shifts that occur with the passage of time, and which render memory and representations of the Holocaust ever more mediated, commodified, and departicularized. Nowhere is the inquiry into Holocaust memory more fraught or potentially more productive than in German Studies, where scholars have struggled to address German guilt and responsibility while doing justice to the global impact of the Holocaust, and are increasingly facing the challenge of engaging with the broader, interdisciplinary, transnational field. Persistent Legacy connects the present, critical scholarly moment with this long disciplinary tradition, probing the relationship between German Studies and Holocaust Studies today. Fifteen prominent scholars explore how German Studies engages with Holocaust memory and representation, pursuing critical questions concerning the borders between the two fields and how they are impacted by emerging scholarly methods, new areas of inquiry, and the changing place of Holocaust memory in contemporary Germany."--