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NOTES
This chapter builds on some of my earlier works, notably Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics
of Race (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylavnia Press, 1999) and German Bodies: Race
and Representation after Hitler (New York: Routledge, 1999), however with substantial revisions.
Short segments of this chapter also appeared in Transforming Anthropology 8, nos. 1–2 (1999):
129–61; City and Society: Annual Review 1997 (1998): 135–58; and American Anthropologist 99,no.2
(1997): 559–73, all © American Anthropological Association.
1. The literature on the politics of post-Holocaust memory is enormous. Here I have
made reference to only some of the outstanding recent examples.
2. This list of publications is not meant to be exhaustive; it merely samples some of the
excellent recent works on this issue.
3. As Omer Bartov (1998:793) has pointed out, the enthusiastic reception by third-generation
Germans of Goldhagen’s book, which argued that in the Third Reich Nazis and
Germans were synonymous, was related to this desired sense of the past being “another
country,” or rather the grandparents’ fatherland. See, for example, Roll (1996); Ullrich (1996);
and Joffe (1996).
4. English translation from Herzog (1998:442).
5. English translation from ibid. (p. 442, n. 113).
6. From ibid. (p. 440).
7. From Sauer (1955:426).
8. A prevalent 1980s peace movement slogan cited by Claussen (1986:61).
9. From Piwitt (1978:39).
10. For a discussion about the comparative importance of the German student movement,
consult Bude (1995:17–22, 41–42).
11. From Herzog (1998:397), who provides an in-depth analysis of the recurrent coupling
of politics and sex in the debates of the German New Left movement during the late sixties.
For a contemporary rendering, see Haug (1965:30–31).
12. The photo caption text was translated by Herzog (1998:405).
13. English translation from Herzog (1998:405).
14. I recorded these slogans and texts during different stages of fieldwork in Germany:
1988–89, 1994 (Berlin), 1995 (Coblenz). For similar versions documented elsewhere, see, for
example, Spiegel (1989:26–50); Interim (1989:cover jacket); Jäger (1993); and Link (1983).
15. Personal communication ( July 16, 1996).
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