Key Historical Works on the Memory of WWII and the Holocaust

• Catherine Merridale, “War, death, and remembrance in Soviet Russia” in Winters and Sivan, War and Remembrance (1999)
• Eric Langenberger, “The Mastered Past? Collective Memory Trends in Germany Since Unification” (2010)
• James Young, from At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture
• Pierre Sorlin, “Children as War Victims in Postwar European Film” in Winters and Sivan, War and Remembrance
• Tony Judt, The Past is Another Country (2000)
• Dr. Susan Neiman, “Working Through the Past”: German Efforts to Face their Nazi History (lecture)
• “Holocaust remembrance in Germany: A Changing Culture,” in Deutsche Welle, January 27, 2019
• “Never Forget” on Deutschland.de
• “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” on Wikipedia
• “Historikerstreit” on Wikipedia
• Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil – Holocaust Living History Workshop” – University of California Television – at https://youtu.be/emyY97ToZZc
• “How Germany Can Help America Remember” – On the Media at WNYC – online here
• Geoff Eley, “Contemporary Germany and Denial: Is ‘Nazism’ All there is to Say?” History Workshop (2017)
• Richard Evans, The Third Reich in History and Memory (2015) – at EBook Central
• Robert Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
• Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (1997)
• Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988)

MUSEUMS

• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – USA, founded 1980

Primary Sources – Literary

Primary Sources – Artistic

PRIMARY SOURCES – Memorials 

• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – Berlin, built 2005
• Stoplerstein, across Europe, built/designed 1992
• Bebelplatz, Berlin, designed 1994
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Virtual Tour
• Memorials to Soldiers of WWII in Germany

PRIMARY SOURCES – FILMS

• Shoah, 1985
• The Sorrow and the Pity, 1971.
• Murderers are Among Us, 1946.
• The Marriage of Maria Braun, 1978
• Günter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959)
• The Nasty Girl, Dir. Michael Verhoeven, BRD (1990)