Editor's introduction

ideals, identity and war

Michael Wintle

1-18

Human rights and European identity since World War II

Helle Porsdam

21-36

Before integration

Hagen Schulz-Forberg

37-54

From war talk to rights talk

Jay Winter

55-72

Myth and history in European post-war history writing

Jan Ifversen

75-91

From Nazi legacy to Cold War

British perceptions of European identity, 1945–54

Wendy Webster

92-110

The Nordic way out

Henk V. der Liet

111-123

"Europe is the country of the spirit"

Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944–7

Manet van Montfrans

124-137

Max Kohnstamm's new Europe

Annemarie van Heerikhuizen

159-170

Atoms for Europe

Menno Spiering

171-185

Before self-reflexivity

imperialism and colonialism in the early discourses of European integration

Wolfgang Schmale

186-201

Holocaust literature and the shaping of European identity after the second world war

the case of Jorge Semprun

Simonsen

205-223

Goodbye to all that?

Jewish views of Europe after 1945

Irene E. Zwiep

224-234

Language out of darkness

George Steiner speaking the unspeakable

Ricardo Gil Soeiro

235-246