The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans

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Preface i The War in the Empty Air Preface ii Preface iii The Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans Dagmar Barnouw INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis in the WAR EMPTY AIR Preface iv This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2005 by Dagmar Barnouw All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barnouw, Dagmar. The war in the empty air: victims, perpetrators, and postwar Germans / Dagmar Barnouw. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34651-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Memory—Social aspects—Germany. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Germany— Historiography. 3. Germany—History—1933-1945— Historiography. 4. Photography in historiography. 5. National characteristics, German. 6. History—Psychological aspects. I. Title. DD256.48.B37 2005 940.53'072'043—dc22 2005011537 1 2 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 06 05 Preface v To the memory of my mother Preface vi ...