Publication details

Die Vergangenheitsbewältigung in aktuellen deutschen Filmen

Title in English Coming to Terms with the Past in Latest German Films
Authors

BUDŇÁK Jan

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Der moderne Unterricht des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords world war 2;oral history;latest german movies;coming to terms with the past; neo-nazi movements
Description The paper shows how two latest german films (Das Wunder von Bern, So weit die Füße tragen) play the nazi past down. They tie up to phenomenons examined by the "oral history", i.e. the "memories" of family members that have been passed on for a long time and "redeem" the nazi soldiers because they are "our" family members (in spite of the commonly accepted view of the nazi period). This bias is getting rather dangerous as it is increasingly used by emerging nazi movements to justify their view of the nazi past and their own existence.

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