The spoils of war
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Campbell (0009-0001-0210-3420) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-507 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085140500112095 |
| OpenAlex | W2138800043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Antony Beevor's Berlin: The Downfall 1945 has been an international best-selling history of the fall of Berlin to Soviet troops in 1945. Now published in paperback, Beevor's magisterial narrative of Berlin's downfall has become a leading work of contemporary popular history. The public discussion of this book has been dominated by two themes: first, the ‘normalization’ of the suffering of German civilians and, second, the ‘disclosure’ of mass rapes by the liberating Soviet army in Germany. This review traces how key debates concerning the remembrance of the Second World War form these dominant readings of Berlin. In particular, it examines the formation of the re-remembering of the wartime rapes of Berlin women, and considers the implications of Beevor's account of the downfall of Berlin for how we understand sexual violence in armed conflict
Art · Economic history · German · Literature · Narrative · Normalization (sociology · Political science · Sexual violence · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |