This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of constructive and destructive memorializing, providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: The Nuremberg Narrative: Fashioning
a Liberalized Anglo-American Holocaust Memorialization.
Chapter 3: The
Americanization of the Holocaust: Expressions of Cultural and Political
Memorialization.
Chapter 4: Why All the Swastikas?: UK Rock Stars
Nazi/Holocaust Encounters, 1960s-1980s.
Chapter 5: No Soup For You!:
Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Humor on American Sitcoms.
Chapter
6: Irreverent Instruction: Considering New Approaches in Twenty-First Century
European and American Holocaust Education.
Chapter 7: That is Really Meme:
Nazifying Pepe the Frog and the Subversion of Anglo-American Holocaust
Memorialization.
Chapter 8: Conclusion.
Jeffrey Demsky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Bernardino Valley College (USA). His scholarship exists at the intersection of post-World War II western democratic history and Holocaust memorialization.
