Thomas W. Kniesche: Investigating Crime in a Time of War, Gebunden

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1. Introduction: Historical crime fiction and German Fascism: Different ways of representing Nazism and the Holocaust.- 2. Teaching readers about forgotten aspects of the Holocaust: Didacticism in Christian von Ditfurth's A Paragon of Virtue.- 3. Deconstructing the People's War: British and German Nazis in Foyle's War.- 4. Teaming up the French policeman and the good (or at least not so bad) Nazi: Fighting crime in occupied France.- 5. Telling the story of the rise of German fascism: Intradiegetic narration in Volker Kutscher's Gereon Rath-novels.- 6. The hard-boiled hero and the Holocaust: Reflecting on crime fiction as a representation of history in Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther-series.- 7. Negotiating the idea of historical truth: Questioning the reliability of account of the past in Uta-Maria Heim's Feierabend.- 8. Conclusion: On different ways of telling the story of Nazism and the Holocaust in historical crime fiction.