Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia

Introduction: Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War
Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang

Part One: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches

1. From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim? Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory
Andreas Wirsching

2. Victim Identities in the Public Sphere: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment
Michael Schwartz

Part Two: Victims of Genocide and Massacres

3. Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity
Ingo Loose
 
4. History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions”
Jürgen Zarusky

5. Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History?
Daqing Yang

6. “The Death of Manila” in World War II and Its Postwar Commemoration
Satoshi Nakano

Part Three: War Victims

7. Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War
James Orr

8. Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War
Tatiana Voronina

9. Victims or Perpetrators or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans
Barbara Christophe

Part Four: Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations

10. In Search of a Usable Memory: Politics of History and the Commemoration Day for German Forced Migrants after World War II
Mathias Beer

11. Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region (1922–54)
Tobias Hof

12. Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet   Union and Russia
Moritz Florin 

13. East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of WWII-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project
Lori Watt