The Mark of Cain Guilt and Denial in the Post War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators 1st Edition by Katharina Von Kellenbach ISBN 0199937451 9780199937455

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ISBN 10: 0199937451 
ISBN 13: 9780199937455
Author: Katharina Von Kellenbach

The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany’s coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after World War II. These documents provide intimate insights into the self-reflection and self-perception of perpetrators. As Germany looks back on more than sixty years of passionate debate about political, personal and legal guilt, its ongoing engagement with the legacy of perpetration has transformed German culture and politics.The willingness to forgive and forget displayed by the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son became the paradigm central to Germany’s rehabilitation and reintegration of Nazi perpetrators. The problem with Luke’s parable in this context is that, unlike the son in the parable, perpetrators did not ask for forgiveness. Most agents of state crimes felt innocent. Von Kellenbach proposes the story of the mark of Cain as a counter narrative. In contrast to the Prodigal Son, who is quickly forgiven and welcomed back into the house of the father, the fratricidal Cain is charged to rebuild his life on the basis of open communication about the past. The story of the Prodigal Son equates forgiveness with forgetting; Cain’s story links redemption with remembrance and suggests a strategy of critical engagement with perpetrators.

The Mark of Cain Guilt and Denial in the Post War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators 1st Table of contents:

1. The Mark of Cain
2. Guilt Confessions and Amnesty Campaigns
3. Faith under the Gallows: Spectacles of Innocence in WCP Landsberg
4. Cleansed by Suffering? The SS General and the Human Beast
5. From Honorable Sacrifices to Lonely Scapegoats
6. “Understand, My Boy, This Truth about the Mistake”: Inheriting Guilt
7. “Naturally I Will Stand by My Husband”: Marital Love and Loyalty
8. Absolved from the Guilt of the Past? Memory as Burden and as Grace

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