Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and jewish displaced persons in Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949

Life After Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During The 1940s and 1950s

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 93-128

  Grossmann, Atina ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139052344.005     Document Type: Chapter

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