The Discursive Construction of History

Download or read book The Discursive Construction of History written by Hannes Heer and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? What strategies and taboos are employed to reconstruct wars, revolutions, torturing, mass killings and genocide in a way to make their contradiction to basic human rights and values invisible? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time, in multiple genres, the history and image of the "German Wehrmacht" and the debates in Austria and Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht during WWII.