RT Book T1 Never again: Germans and genocide after the Holocaust A1 Port, Andrew I. 1967- LA English PP Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England PB The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press YR 2023 ED First printing UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1823241409 AB As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from postwar Germany’s pacifist tradition open the door to renewed militarism? In short, when Germans said “never again,” did they mean “never again Auschwitz” or “never again war”? Looking beyond solemn statements and well-meant monuments, Andrew I. Port examines how the Nazi past shaped German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda – and further, how these foreign atrocities recast Germans’ understanding of their own horrific history. In the late 1970s, the reign of the Khmer Rouge received relatively little attention from a firmly antiwar public that was just “discovering” the Holocaust. By the 1990s, the genocide of the Jews was squarely at the center of German identity, a tectonic shift that inspired greater involvement in Bosnia and, to a lesser extent, Rwanda. Germany’s increased willingness to use force in defense of others reflected the enthusiastic embrace of human rights by public officials and ordinary citizens. At the same time, conservatives welcomed the opportunity for a more active international role involving military might – to the chagrin of pacifists and progressives at home. Making the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear, this book is a story with deep resonance for any country confronting a dark past. NO Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register CN 327.43 SN 9780674275225 K1 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr K1 c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) K1 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 K1 Civil rights & citizenship K1 Colonialism & imperialism K1 European history K1 Europäische Geschichte K1 HISTORY / Europe / Germany K1 HISTORY / Holocaust K1 Holocaust K1 Human Rights K1 Kolonialismus und Imperialismus K1 Kriegsverbrechen K1 Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte K1 POL045000 K1 POL061000 K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights K1 Second World War K1 The Holocaust K1 war crimes K1 Deutschland : Judenvernichtung : Kollektives Gedächtnis : Vergangenheitsbewältigung : Öffentlichkeit : Reaktion : Bosnien-Herzegowina : Ruanda : Völkermord : Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit K1 Deutschland : Judenvernichtung : Vergangenheitsbewältigung : Menschenrechtspolitik : Bewaffneter Konflikt : Militärische Intervention : Öffentliche Meinung : Geschichte