The Punishment of Sin: War Memory and Reflection in Japan and Germany (1945--1993)

Author: Buyi (English)
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Publish Date: 2006-12-28
Features: War and its sins, collective memory and reflection of Germans and Japanese? By walking through important places related to war and its crimes, through interviews and dialogues with various figures, and by excavating cultural products such as literature, drama, film, television, museums, textbooks, monuments, the author traces the actions of the governments and people of the two countries in the 50 years after the war in the face of war crimes and wounds, attempting to find similarities and differences between Japanese and Germans in facing history and their past sins, and pursuing the national psychology and collective memory hidden behind reflection and repentance, denial and distortion, as well as numbness and escape.