Book talk 'The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence'

The Politics of Repressed Guilt
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Leeb's book draws on an original archive of materials to analyze court documents on Nazi perpetrators and contemporary public controversies on theater plays and museums, as examples of Austrians' failure to work through their past, and thereby demonstrates the damaging political consequences this failure has had, and continues to have, for democracy.