Rauch, Stefanie;
(2025)
Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries: From Luke Holland's Final Account.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries presents a selection of excerpts from a recently opened collection of filmed interviews conducted by British documentary filmmaker Luke Holland (1948-2020). Most of the interviewees were young adults when the war ended. Some of them, or their families, had benefited materially through ‘Aryanisation’, Party-facilitated careers or exploiting forced labour. Others had enabled and enacted persecution or perpetrated violence, perhaps in anti-partisan warfare. They all built new lives in the three successor states of West Germany (FRG), East Germany (GDR), and Austria, and dealt with the Nazi past in different ways, including Holocaust denial, attempts at separating their lives from Nazi crimes, and reform. The role played by ‘ordinary Germans’ in the ‘Third Reich’ and the Holocaust continues to stir debate. In the wider context of mass public engagement with the Holocaust and in light of new forms of racism, antisemitism and prejudice, this compelling sourcebook raises critical awareness of important issues around representation, authenticity, and the co-production of narratives. It attends to the issues of how and by whom knowledge is produced, the contingency of life narratives, performativity, and pedagogy. By suggesting critical questions and providing a reading list, it is an urgent and effective tool for thinking and teaching.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries: From Luke Holland's Final Account |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088658 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088658 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088658 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Rauch, S. (2025). Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries: From Luke Holland’s Final Account. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088658 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Holocaust, Nazis, oral history, Germany, documentary, bystanders |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office > UCL Institute for Advanced Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10210543 |
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