Introduction -- Close views of private pasts. Shameful exposures: documenting personal stories and family histories -- Intimate insights: portraying Nazi leaders and resistance activists -- Seductive encounters with Nazi perpetrators. Monstrous fascinations: face to face with evil -- Homoerotic attractions: inside the Third Reich -- Immersive spectacles of public pasts. A Hollywood aesthetics of German trauma -- Event television and media convergence -- Unifying legacies of national history? The Holocaust at home -- The loss of "heimat" -- A heritage of destruction -- Conclusion.
