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This paper looks at the effects of partition in both Germany and Ireland on national identity. It identifies certain parallels in the ways that official and unofficial attitudes developed over time in the two countries during partition/division and aims to show that attitudes towards the question of national identity among large sections of the populations of all four states were frequently at variance...
Günter Grass's novella Im Krebsgang has been widely received as a text that is central to the new literary and political engagement with German victimhood in 1944–5 that emerged at the turn of the century. The inherent danger in failing to address German suffering in mainstream discourse, the text appears to suggest, is that the way is left open to a neo‐Nazi agenda that relativises the Holocaust...