Winning the peace at the movies: suffering, loss, and redemption in postwar German cinema

Provides a broad overview that highlights the significance of representations of war in postwar films for the emergence of a functioning democracy and civil society in West Germany. While early postwar films offered a very selective view of the war that focused primarily on German suffering, by the late 1950s some films had begun to exhibit a more critical stance that also addressed German complicity in National Socialist crimes