Introduction: In the House of the Hangman
1: The Dead Mother: Anna Seghers
2: Stefan Heym's Negotiation of Communist-Jewish Identity
3: The Dead Wife: Stephan Hermlin
4: Expanding East German Holocaust Discourse: Peter Edel and Fred Wander
5: The Dead Father. Jurek Becker
Conclusion: "Let us speak German for an hour."
Works Cited
Index

THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).