European Identity and the Second World War

1. Editor’s Introduction: Ideals, Identity and War: The Idea of Europe, 1939–70
Michael Wintle

Part I. World War II, Europe and Human Rights

2. Human Rights and European Identity since World War II
Helle Porsdam

3. Before Integration
Hagen Schulz-Forberg

4. From War Talk to Rights Talk
Jay Winter

Part II. Reflections: Narratives of European Civilization and World War II

5. Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing
Jan Ifversen

6. From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945–54
Wendy Webster

7. The Nordic Way Out
Henk Liet

8. ‘Europe is the Country of the Spirit’: Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944–7
Manet Montfrans

Part III. Visions: Plans for a New Europe after World War II

9. The Ventotene Manifesto: The Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe
Matthew D’Auria

10. Max Kohnstamm’s New Europe
Annemarie Heerikhuizen

11. Atoms for Europe
Menno Spiering

12. Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration
Wolfgang Schmale

Part IV. Shoah, War and European Civilization

13. Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: The Case of Jorge Semprun
Karen-Margrethe L. Simonsen

14. Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945
Irene Zwiep

15. Language Out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable
Ricardo Gil Soeiro

Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, Political History, History of World War II and the Holocaust