The burden of German history

• Verfasst von: Jarausch, Konrad [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The burden of German history
• Titelzusatz: a transatlantic life
• Verf.angabe: Konrad H. Jarausch
• Verlagsort: New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Berghahn
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xiii, 188 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in contemporary European history
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 174-179 ; Bibliografie Konrad H. Jarausch 1966-2021: Seite 171-173 ; Enthält ein Register
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-960-4
• DOI: doi:10.3167/9781800739604
• Schlagwörter: (p)Jarausch, Konrad / (g)Deutschland / (s)Geschichtsschreibung / (z)Geschichte 1945-2021
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jarausch, Konrad, 1941 - : The burden of German history. - New York, NY : Berghahn, 2023. - 1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NB 6350
• K10plus-PPN: 1822501857

Abstract

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of scholars too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood to Americanization as a foreign student, from his development as a professional historian to his directorship of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and concluding with his mentorship of dozens of PhDs, The Burden of Germany History reflects on the emergence of a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This partly professional and partly personal autobiography explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and its methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies, and the role of scholarly organizations and institutions.