German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities

Bas von Benda-Beckmann is affiliated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.

• Introduction, Chapter 1 Putting the Allies on trial Historical accounts of the Allied air war in the early Federal Republic, 1945-1970, Chapter 2 Dresden and the Cold War: East-West Debates on the Bombing of Dresden, 1945-1970, Chapter 3 A Past becomes History The professionalizing of military historiography of the air war in the Federal Republic since the 1970s, Chapter 4 Imperialist Air War East German historiography and the work of Olaf Groehler, 1965-1995, Chapter 5 Breaking Taboos : Jörg Friedrich and the Rediscovery of the Allied Bombings in the United Germany, Conclusion: The Allied bombings as a German catastrophe, Abbreviations, Bibliography