Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations

1. Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland’s Postmemory after 1989
Kristin Kopp, Joanna Niżyńska

Part I. The Politics of Postmemory

2. Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989–2005)
Wanda Jarząbek

3. History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of Poland 1956–1990
Stefan Guth

4. “The Law Alleviates Concerns”: Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation
Paweł Lutomski

5. Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture
Heidi Hein-Kircher

Part II. The Grand Narratives of Postmemory

6. When Poland Was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf
Angelika Bammer

7. Declaring War: Attitudes Toward the Years 1939–1945 in Polish Literature of the Post-1990s
Przemysław Czapliński

8. Liberation from Memory: Memory, Postmemory, or Subverted Memory in What Does the Messenger Girl Do by Foks & Libera
Marek Zaleski, Elżbieta Wiak-McIver

9. Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009)
Jesse Labov, Jan T. Gross

10. Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear

Jessie Labov

Part III. The Space of Postmemory

11. Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika
Erica Lehrer

12. The “Lodzermensch”: From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism
Winson Chu

13. “We Are Prussia Today”: Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State
Gregor Thum

Avainsanat: History, Cultural History, European Politics, History of Germany and Central Europe, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, European History, Modern History