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Coming to terms with the past in postwar literature and philosophy

2002· book-chapter· en· W954558792 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Robert C. Holub

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VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2002
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, History, and Historiography
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGermanRefugeeBattlefieldWorld War IIEconomic historyGerman reunificationHistoryGerman populationPolitical sciencePopulationQuarter (Canadian coin)NazismNazi GermanyAncient historyLawDevelopment economicsSociologyDemography

Abstract

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THE TROUBLED LEGACY From 1945 until at least reunification in 1989 German intellectual and cultural life, including philosophy and literature, was dominated by the endeavour to come to terms with the past. At the conclusion of its second military defeat in less than three decades, Germany was morally exhausted and physically devastated. In contrast to the First World War, when Germany surrendered before it was invaded by foreign armies, the Second World War brought tremendous losses for Germans both on the battlefield and at home. Three and a half million German soldiers lost their lives fighting for Adolf Hitler and his Reich, and just as many civilians perished; ten million German soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, some never to return. The economic destruction was immense: Germany, reduced in size by about a quarter, experienced a loss of about a third of its national wealth, along with fifteen percent of its available housing. Hardest hit were the major cities, which were the primary targets in the Allied air attacks. Shortly after the end of hostilities another pressing problem arose: the refugees from the East began pouring into a country that could not even take care of its own population. It is estimated that up to twenty-five million Germans lost their homes because of evacuation, flight or bombing. The situation was most dire in the eastern portions of Germany, where the battles between the German and the invading Soviet armies had been severely contested.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.097

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0100.040
Scholarly communication0.0110.010
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.157
Teacher spread0.138 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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