Coping with the Nazi Past

<p> Published in Association with the German Historical Institute Washington D.C.</p><p> Based on careful intensive research in primary sources many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors drawn from both sides of the Atlantic offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced and was influenced by politics and culture in West Germany in the 1960s. The contributions address a wide variety of issues including prosecution for war crimes restitution immigration policy health policy reform of the police German relations with Israel and the United States nuclear non-proliferation and of course student politics and the New Left protest movement.</p>