Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany / edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

How the Germans learned to wage war : on the question of killing in the First and Second World Wars / Michael Geyer -- The shadow of death in Germany at the end of the Second World War / Richard Bessel -- Reburying and rebuilding : reflecting on proper burial in Berlin after "zero hour" / Monica A. Black -- Fanning the flames : cremation in late imperial and Weimar Germany / Simone Ameskamp -- Disposing of the dead in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Felix Robin Schulz -- Death at the Munich Olympics / Kay Schiller -- When cold warriors die : the state funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht / Paul Betts -- A common experience of death : commemorating the German-Jewish soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923 / Tim Grady -- Laughing about death? : "German humor" in the two world wars / Martina Kessel -- Death, spiritual solace, and afterlife : between Nazism and religion / Alon Confino -- Yizkor! : commemoration of the dead by Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany / Gabriel N. Finder -- The imagination of disaster : death and survival in postwar West Germany / Svenja Goltermann -- European melancholy and the inability to listen : Sebald, politics, and death / Daniel Steuer -- A cemetery in Berlin / Peter Fritzsche.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.