Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel

Vincenzo Pinto, Ph.D. (1974) is an Italian historian, teacher, and journalist. He has published books, translations, and critical editions on Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish contemporary identity. Among them, the biography of Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (2007) and the first Italian critical edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (2017).

• Introduction: The Meaning of History: Coming to Terms with the PastVincenzo Pintopart 1: Articles1 “Coming to Terms with the Past” or “Policy for the Past”? The 1950s West German Compensations for Holocaust Survivors and German ExpelleesIris Nachum2 Austria’s Repressed Guilt in Theory and PracticeClaudia Leeb3 Coming to Terms with the Holocaust with Reference to Memorial Monuments in Europe: A Comparative AnalysisAntonella Tiburzi4 Theodor W. Adorno, Günther Anders, and the Representation of the End Time: Beckett at AuschwitzMicaela Latini5 “Against a Present that Places the Incomprehensible in the Cold Storage of History”: The Representation and Experience of Limit in Jean Améry and Primo LeviMatteo Cavalleri6 Between a Quest for a Heimat and Alienation: Jean Améry’s Journey after AuschwitzFrancesco Ferrari7 “Denn fühlen die Mächtigen sich bedroht, so schlagen sie die Gerechten”: Looking at History in König David Bericht by Stefan HeymMassimo De Villa8 “Those Who Have Suffered Too Much Do Not Always Reason Well”: Primo Levi, Furio Jesi, and the 1968 Debate on Spiritual and Political ZionismCarlo Trombinopart 2: TestimoniesTestimony 1: Does a Past Pass?Gianerico RusconiTestimony 2: The Meaning of Italian “Resistenza”Alberto Cavaglionpart 3: AppendicesAppendix 1: The Meaning of Working through the PastTheodor W. AdornoAppendix 2: Commemorative Event in the Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War in Europe (Bonn, May 8, 1985)Richard von WeiszäckerAppendix 3: A Letter to Monica (25th April 1983)Primo LeviComing to Terms with the Past in Postwar Germany: A BibliographyStefano AlibertiIndex of Names and Places