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Article: German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour
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- German Quarterly
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- July 1, 2005
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Brockmann, Stephen. German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour. Rochester: Camden House, 2004. 288 pp $75.00 hardcover.
Scholars of German literature and history agree that the Zero Hour-the months and years immediately following World War II-never really existed as a cultural concept. Like the disputed and paradoxical Zero Hour itself, its debunking and nullification has had the ironic effect of strengthening interest in it. Extensive scholarly research on the time period, however, is still lacking. With his latest volume, Stephen Brockmann seeks to fill the gap in English-speaking sources on the Zero Hour, and offers a quite comprehensive thematic study on this contested time period. Fully ...