TY - BOOK ID - 100035604 TI - Authenticity and victimhood after the Second World War AU - Hansen, Randall AU - Saupe, Achim AU - Wirsching, Andreas AU - Yang, Daqing PY - 2021 SN - 1487528221 148752823X 9781487528225 9781487528232 9781487528218 1487528213 PB - Toronto Buffalo London DB - UniCat KW - Collective memory KW - War victims KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - HISTORY / Military / World War II. KW - Atrocities KW - Historiography. KW - China. KW - East Asia. KW - Europe. KW - Hitler. KW - Holocaust. KW - Japanmassacre. KW - Nazi Germany. KW - Second World War. KW - Shoah. KW - WWII. KW - authenticity. KW - civilian casualties. KW - famine. KW - forced migration. KW - genocide. KW - postwar commemoration. KW - victimhood. KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Victims of war KW - Victims KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Europe - Historiography KW - World War, 1939-1945 - East Asia - Historiography KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Historiography KW - War victims - Europe KW - War victims - East Asia KW - Collective memory - East Asia KW - Collective memory - Europe KW - East KW - Eastern Asia KW - Far East KW - Asia KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - 1939-1945 KW - World War II Period KW - Collective memory. KW - War victims. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100035604 AB - "The shadow of the Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession. None of these atrocities were new, but they all occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims' histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events. Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War shows the trends towards a victim-centred collective memory and the role trends play in memory politics and public commemorative culture."-- ER -