Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-212) and index.
Images of history: postwar German films and the Third Reich -- Germany as myth: Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a film from Germany -- The presence of the past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The marriage of Maria Braun -- In search of Germany: Alexander Kluge's The patriot -- Our childhoods, ourselves: Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, pale mother -- Germany as memory: Edgar Reitz's Heimat -- Epilogue: History, memory, and film