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This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their legacies. It discusses novels written by five authors: David Downing, Philip Kerr, Luke McCallin, Joseph Kanon and David Thomas. Their work belongs to a subgenre of the historical crime novel that has emerged since the late 1980s to become a significant body of writing located at the intersection of crime fiction and Holocaust literature. The readings of these novels explore questions of form and genre to ask how popular fiction might approach the Holocaust. Themes of resistance and complicity and the relationship between them, and problems of guilt and responsibility are also discussed. This book also explores questions of justice to show how these novels explore social and moral justice, and vengeance

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.

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