1st Edition
German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities The Contested Air War
By Bas Von Benda-Beckmann
Copyright 2015
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Today, strategic aerial bombardments of urban areas that harm civilians, at times intentionally, are becoming increasingly common in global conflicts. This book reveals the history of these tactics as employed by nations that initiated aerial bombardments of civilians after World War I and during World War II. As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing left a strong... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1 Putting the Allies on trial Historical accounts of the Allied air war in the early Federal Republic, 1945-1970, Chapter 2 Dresden and the Cold War: East-West Debates on the Bombing of Dresden, 1945-1970, Chapter 3 A Past becomes History The professionalizing of military historiography of the air war in the Federal Republic since the 1970s, Chapter 4 Imperialist Air War East German historiography and the work of Olaf Groehler, 1965-1995, Chapter 5 Breaking Taboos : Jörg Friedrich and the Rediscovery of the Allied Bombings in the United Germany, Conclusion: The Allied bombings as a German catastrophe, Abbreviations, Bibliography
Biography
Bas von Benda-Beckmann is affiliated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.
