caa a22 4500 463200381 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9045-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9045-0 Cosentino Christine Foreign Language Department, Rutgers University, 08102, Camden, NJ, USA aut "Der Krieg, ein Kinderspiel”: Romane mit Kinderperspektive im Kontext der Luftkriegsdebatte [Elektronische Daten] [Christine Cosentino] For over half a century, German discussions of the Third Reich in literature have focused primarily on crimes committed by the Nazis, on the Holocaust, and on the Germans' endorsement of the regime or passivity toward it. There was generally a noticeable silence in literature about the Germans' own suffering during aerial bombings. Finally, in 1997, the writer W.G. Sebald began an investigation and public debate about the causes of this collective act of forgetting. It is noteworthy that in recent times—times of new global wars—a number of German authors, among them Volker Braun, Dieter Forte, Kurt Bartsch and Helga Schütz, have decided to address their trauma as a vital part of their postwar identity. They were children during the war and therefore beyond moral and historical responsibility. Their literary works show a convincing fusion of narrative perspectives: an innocent child's view of the war with the critical reflections of the older writer. Nowhere are there attempts to portray the Germans as victims or to blur the line between perpetrators and victims. With acute historical awareness of the horrors of war, the authors of the recent autobiographical messages are driven solely by one overpowering motivation: never again. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 687-699 0028-2677 91:4<687 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9045-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9045-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cosentino Christine Foreign Language Department, Rutgers University, 08102, Camden, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 687-699 0028-2677 91:4<687 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer