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1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction / Bill Niven and Chloe Paver -- pt. 1. Remembering German losses -- The Volkstrauertag (People's Day of Mourning) from 1922 to the present / Alexandra Kaiser -- Beyond usable pasts : rethinking the memorialisation of the strategic air war in Germany, 1940 to 1965 / Jörg Arnold -- Roads to revision : disputes over street names referring to the German Eastern territories after the First and Second World War in the cities of Dresden and Mainz, 1921-1972 / Christian Lotz -- Monuments and commemorative sites for German expellees / Elke Purpus and Hans Hesse -- A memorial laisser-passez? : church exhibitions and national victimhood in Germany / Daniela Sandler -- Remembering on foreign soil : the activities of the German War Graves Commission / David Livingstone -- Neither here nor there : memorialisation of the expulsion of ethnic Germans / Dagmar Kift -- pt. 2. Remembering Nazi crimes, perpetrators, and victims -- Memorialisation endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen für Politische Bildung) / Dieter K. Buse -- Memorialisation of perpetrator sites in Bavaria / Markus Urban -- Pieces of the past : souvenirs from Nazi sites : the example of Peenemünde / Ulrike Dittrich -- Remembering euthanasia : Grafeneck in the past, present, and future / Susanne C. Knittel -- Remembering prisoners of war as victims of National Socialist persecution and murder in post-war Germany / Jens Nagel -- (In)visible trauma : Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's memorial to the homosexuals persecuted under the National Socialist regime / Thomas O. Haakenson -- Memorialising the White Rose Resistance Group in post-war Germany / Katie Rickard -- The role of German perpetrator sites in teaching and confronting the Nazi past / Caroline Pearce -- pt. 3. Remembering Jewish suffering -- Memorialisation through documentation : Holocaust commemoration among Jewish displaced persons in Allied-occupied Germany / Laura Jockusch -- Memorialising persecuted Jews in Dachau and other West German concentration camp memorial sites / Harold Marcuse -- Remembering Nazi anti-Semitism in the GDR / Bill Niven -- Rosenstrasse : a complex site of German-Jewish memory / Hilary Jane Potter -- The counter-monument : memory shaped by male post-war legacy / Corinna Tomberger -- Stumbling blocks : a decentralised memorial to Holocaust victims / Michael Imort -- Affective memory, ineffective functionality : experiencing Berlin's memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe / Brigitte Sion -- From monuments to installations : aspects of memorialisation in historical exhibitions about the National Socialist era / Chloe Paver -- pt. 4. Socialist memory and memory of socialism -- Heroes and victims : the aesthetics and ideology of monuments and memorials in the GDR / Susanne Scharnowski -- Beating Nazis and selling socialism : representing East German war memory to foreign tourists / Lynne Fallwell -- Memorialising socialist contradictions : a "think-mark" for Rosa Luxemburg in the new Berlin / Riccardo Bavaj -- Challenging or concretising Cold War narratives? : Berlin's memorial to the victims of 17 June 1953 / Anna Saunders -- GDR monuments in unified Germany / Mia Lee -- Memorialisation of the German-German border in the context of constructions of Heimat / Gerd Knischewski and Ulla Spittler -- The fight in the prison car park : memorialising Germany's "double past" in Torgau since 1990 / Andrew H. Beattie -- pt. 5. Memorialising Germany's ambivalent legacies -- Martin Luther : rebel, genius, liberator : politics and marketing, 1517-2017 / Ulrike Zitzlsperger -- Building up and tearing down the myth of German colonialism : colonial Denkmale and Mahnmale after 1945 / Jason Verber -- Remembering the Battle of Jutland in post-war Wilhelmshaven / Georg Götz -- The memorialisation of 9 November 1918 in the two German states / Arne Segelke -- A democratic legacy? : the memorialisation of the Weimar Republic and the politics of history of the Federal Republic of Germany / Sebastian Ullrich -- Memorialising the military : traditions, exhibitions, and monuments in the West German Army from the 1950s to the present / Jörg Echternkamp -- The legacy of Second German Empire memorials after 1945 / Bill Niven |
| Summary |
Difficult Pasts provides a lively, wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich and complex memorial landscape. It contains chapters on the many memorials constructed both to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. The volume provides up-to-date coverage of the most publicised memorials, while at the same time discussing many of those less well-known; it provides discussion of key memorial debates in Germany, and challenges established ways of thinking about memorials and memorial sites. Bringing together international scholars from across a range of disciplines, ensuring a breadth of perspective and approach, each analytical essay is written in an accessible style which will appeal to academics, students, and general public alike |
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"Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of national socialism, and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Memorials -- Social aspects -- Germany
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War memorials -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Monuments -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Collective memory -- Germany
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Monuments -- Germany
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Socialism -- Social aspects -- Germany (East)
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- Germany
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European history -- Germany.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- Germany.
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ART -- Popular Culture.
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History.
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Collective memory
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Memorials -- Social aspects
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Monuments
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Politics and government
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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European history -- Germany -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
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Popular culture -- Germany -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
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History.
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Germany -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054654
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001651
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000847
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Germany
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Germany (East)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Niven, Bill, 1956-
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Paver, Chloe E. M.
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| ISBN |
9780230248502 |
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0230248500 |
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