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Author Koshar, Rudy

Title From monuments to traces : artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 / Rudy Koshar
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : illustrations
Series Weimar and now ; 24
Weimar and now ; 24.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Monuments; 2. Ruins; 3. Reconstructions; 4. Traces; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary This text constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than half a century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Beginning with national unification in 1870-71 it follows through to reunification in 1990
Analysis Humaniora Historie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject War memorials -- Germany.
National monuments -- Germany
Symbolism in politics -- Germany
War and civilization.
Political culture -- Germany
National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
HISTORY.
Historiography
National monuments
National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Political culture
Symbolism in politics
War and civilization
War memorials
Denkmal
Gedenkstätte
Geschichte
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Gesellschaft
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kultur
Kunst
Collectief geheugen.
Nationale gedenktekens.
Oorlogsschade.
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Historiography
Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
Germany -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Historiography
Germany -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054524
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520922525
0520922522
0585391769
9780585391762
1597346241
9781597346245
9780520217683
0520217683