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SUMMARY
While the suffering inflicted by Hitler and the Nazis upon the Jews and the peoples of Europe was catastrophic, Germans also suffered greatly as a result of the war. The emphasis on German suffering was quite common among post-war German leaders, especially church leaders, who argued for the victimization of Germans under the Nazi dictatorship and also the Allied conquest of Germany, thus casting themselves as survivors. I will situate this study in the most relevant contemporary literature on German post-war memory and the debate on the question of guilt (die Schuldfrage . . .
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