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Germans, Guilt, and the Second Threshold of Heinrich Böll: A Study of Three Non-Fictional Works
Ist Teil von
The Modern language review, 2002-04, Vol.97 (2), p.336-352
Ort / Verlag
Belfast: Maney Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
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Project Muse All Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article presents an analysis of three works of non-fiction by Heinrich Böll, all addressing the question of German guilt for the Holocaust and all appearing between 1956 and 1960. The argument is that Böll favoured open public discussion of the Holocaust, but that his view was also complex and ambivalent. Especially at issue was whether ordinary Germans who suffered during the war should be counted as 'victims' alongside Jews and other specifically targeted by the Nazi regime. Böll tended to insist on this comparison, but was also vexed by the issue, as he was by the problem of postwar German-Jewish personal contact.