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Erika Steinbach, Die Macht der Erinnerung, 2nd ed. (Vienna: Universitas Verlag, 2011).

This article discusses the respective origins and developments of the German expellee organizations' chief days of commemoration, the Tag der Heimat and the Volkstrauertag, and investigates key elements of the commemorative ceremonies that take place on these occasions, in particular, their liturgical setups, thematic mottos, recitations of Totenehrungen, and the performance of "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden." Despite assertions that the expulsion has been insufficiently commemorated in the Federal Republic, and in spite of recent calls for a national day of remembrance to rectify this commemorative lacuna, this article shows how the expulsion has been memorialized on various levels for decades. Moreover, it argues that the expellee organizations' historical narratives have been one-sided and de-contextualized and sheds light on how the ceremonies bring these understandings of the past to life by highlighting German wartime suffering.

Yulia Komska, The Icon Curtain: The Cold War's Quiet Border (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes, World Language Studies, Indiana University South BendRobert C. Holub, Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
Reviewed by Klaus Berghahn, German, University of Wisconsin, MadisonStephen F. Szabo, Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
Reviewed by Meredith Heiser-Duron, Political Science, Foothill CollegeJuan Espindola, Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Reviewed by Sara Jones, Modern Languages, University of BirminghamJost Hermand, Das Liebe Geld! Eigentumsverhältnisse in der deutschen Literatur (Cologne: Böhlau, 2015)
Reviewed by Klaus L. Berghahn, German, University of Wisconsin, MadisonSimon Ward, Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016).
Reviewed by Marcus Colla, History, University of Cambridge

Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (New York: New York University Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Klaus BerghahnMary Fulbrook and Andrew Port, eds. Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (New York: Berghahn Press, 2013) - Reviewed by Russell DaltonNina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang, ed. German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Jason VerberAndrew Wackerfuss, Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2015) - Reviewed by Robert TobinHans Kundnani, The Paradox of German Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Beverly CrawfordGavriel D. Rosenfeld, Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) - Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes

Jennifer Allen, Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022)
Kevin T. Hall, Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021)
Michael Hughes, The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure (London: Routledge, 2022)
Mark Edward Ruff and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Germany and the Confessional Divide: Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871–1989 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2022)
Christoph Lorke, Liebe verwalten: "Ausländerehen" in Deutschland 1870–1945 [Managing love: "Foreign marriages" in Germany 1870–1945] (Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh, 2020)
John P. Miglietta, Hitler's Allies: The Ramifications of Nazi Alliance Politics in World War II (London: Routledge, 2022)

Ann Taylor Allen, The Transatlantic Kindergarten: Education and Women's
Movements in Germany and the United States (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2017).Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried
Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp, ed., The Nuclear Crisis. The Arms Race, Cold
War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2016).Armin Grünbacher, West German Industrialists and the Making of the
Economic Miracle: A History of Mentality and Recovery (London: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2017).Dan Bednarz, East German Intellectuals and The Unification of Germany
(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).Cornelia Wilhelm, ed. Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945
to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017).Britta Schilling, Postcolonial Germany: Memories of Empire in a Decolonized
Nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).Jenny Wüstenberg, Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).John J. Kulczycki, Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the
Polish-German Borderlands 1939-1951 (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2016).

Charity Scribner, After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture and Militancy
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Myra Marx FerreeDespina Stratigakos, Hitler at Home (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Jeffrey LuppesCarolin Hilpert, Strategic Cultural Change and the Challenge for Security Policy:
Germany and the Bundeswehr's Deployment to Afghanistan (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014)
Reviewed by Randall NewnhamKlaus Weinhauer, Anthony McElligott, and Kirsten Heinsohn, ed., Germany
1916–1923: A Revolution in Context (Bielefeld: transcript, 2016)
Reviewed by David FreisEsra Özyürek, Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion
in the New Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by David N. CouryAmy Austin Holmes, Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and
Germany since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Carol HagerClayton J. Whisnant, Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History
1880-1945 (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Angelika von WahlJames Bindenagel, Matthias Herdegen, and Karl Kaiser, ed., Internationale
Sicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert: Deutschlands internationale Verantwortung
(Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2016)
Reviewed by Randall Newnham

John Kampfner, Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country (London: Atlantic Books, 2020).Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener, eds., Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019).Daniel Marwecki, Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2020).Robert Gellately, Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).Thomas Fleischman, Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020).Joanne Miyang Cho, ed., Transnational Encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900 (New York: Routledge, 2018).