Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction: 'What's One More Murder?'
In: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Writing and Remembering the Holocaust -- The Holocaust in Fiction -- Historical Crime Fiction and the Holocaust -- Jewish Characters -- Crime Versus Detective Fiction -- Holocaust Writing and Holocaust Readers -- Notes -- 1 David Downing: Station Series 1: 'Ordinary Germans Doing Ordinary Things' -- Introduction: John Russell and Effi Koenen -- Wise Realism: Holocaust Writing and Holocaust Reading -- Historical Fiction and Alltagsgeschichte Historiography -- 'Ordinary Germans, If Such People Existed' -- 'They Are Ordinary Germans, Paul. Or They Were': Ordinary Germans, Antisemitism and Jewish Experience -- Notes -- 2 David Downing: Station Series 2: 'Did the Germans Do This, Or Just the Nazis?' -- 'Some Roles Should Be Refused': Resistance and Complicity -- 'So They Just Killed Them': Approaching the Holocaust -- 'We Killed Them All, Didn't We?' Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust -- 'We Both Have Reasons for Pride and Shame': Guilt, Responsibility and Judgement -- 'Making a Movie That Mattered': The Legacy of the Holocaust in Film and Fiction -- The Man I Shall Kill: Justice Or Revenge? -- Notes -- 3 Philip Kerr: Bernie Gunther Novels 1-9: 'But What's One More Murder?' -- Introduction: Bernie Gunther -- 'I Could Never Be a Nazi' -- Humour and Irony and the Holocaust -- Nazi Normality -- A Reluctant Perpetrator -- 'I Had Not Lifted My Hand Against the Nazis': The Search for Redemption -- Collective and Personal Guilt -- Notes -- 4 Philip Kerr: Bernie Gunther Novels 10-14: 'There's No Human Justice That Could Ever Be Enough' -- 'What I Wanted Most in the World. To Die.' -- 'I Wasn't Feeling Proud of Being Human Let Alone German': The Lady From Zagreb.