The Burden of German History

<p> 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 <em>The Burden of Germany History</em> 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.</p>