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Memorialization Germany since 1945 provides a lively, wide-ranging discussion of contemporary German's rich and complex memorial landscape. It contains chapters on the many memorials constructed 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 publicized 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 to ensure a breadth of perspective ...

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Memorialization Germany since 1945 provides a lively, wide-ranging discussion of contemporary German's rich and complex memorial landscape. It contains chapters on the many memorials constructed 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 publicized 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 to ensure a breadth of perspective and approach, the volume contains over 30 essays which will appeal to academics, students, and the general public alike.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230207035
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 1/19/2010
  • Pages: 432
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

BILL NIVEN is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is author of Facing the Nazi Past and is currently preparing a book called A Post-Holocaust History of Germany, 1945-2010, and editing a volume on the history and memory of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff.

CHLOE PAVER is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Exeter, UK. Recent publications include Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film and a series of articles on historical exhibitions about the National Socialist era. She was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz in 2006-07.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction Bill Niven Chloe Paver 1

Section 1 Remembering German Losses

1.1 The Volkstrauertag (People's Day of Mourning) from 1922 to the Present Alexandra Kaiser 15

1.2 Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialization of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965 J?rg Arnold 26

1.3 Roads to Revision: Disputes over Street Names Referring to the German Eastern Territories after the First and Second World Wars in the Cities of Dresden and Mainz, 1921 to 1972 Christian Lotz 37

1.4 Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees Hans Hesse Elke Purpus 48

1.5 A Memorial Laissez-Passer? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany Daniela Sandler 58

1.6 Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission David Livingstone 69

1.7 Neither Here nor There? Memorialization of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans Dagmar Kift 78

Section 2 Remembering Nazi Crimes, Perpetrators, and Victims

2.1 The Mediators: Memorialization Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen f?r politische Bildung) Dieter K. Buse 91

2.2 Memorialization of Perpetrator Sites in Bavaria Markus Urban 103

2.3 Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites - The Example of Peenem?nde Ulrike Dittrich 114

2.4 Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present, and Future Susanne C. Knittel 124

2.5 Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany Jens Nagel 134

2.6 (In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime Thomas O. Haakenson 146

2.7 Memorializing the White Rose Resistance Group in Post-War Germany Katie Rickard 157

2.8 The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past Caroline Pearce 168

Section 3 Remembering Jewish Suffering

3.1 Memorialization through Documentation: Holocaust Commemoration among Jewish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany Laura Jockusch 181

3.2 Memorializing Persecuted Jews in Dachau and Other West German Concentration Camp Memorial Sites Harold Marcuse 192

3.3 Remembering Nazi Anti-Semitism in the GDR Bill Niven 205

3.4 Rosenstra?e: A Complex Site of German-Jewish Memory Hilary Potter 214

3.5 The Counter-Monument: Memory Shaped by Male Post-War Legacies Corinna Tomberger 224

3.6 Stumbling Blocks: A Decentralized Memorial to Holocaust Victims Michael Imort 233

3.7 Affective Memory, Ineffective Functionality: Experiencing Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Brigitte Sion 243

3.8 From Monuments to Installations: Aspects of Memorialization in Historical Exhibitions about the National Socialist Era Chloe Paver 253

Section 4 Socialist Memory and Memory of Socialism

4.1 Heroes and Victims: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Monuments and Memorials in the GDR Susanne Scharnowski 267

4.2 Beating Nazis and Exporting Socialism: Representing East German War Memory to Foreign Tourists Lynne Fallwell 276

4.3 Memorializing Socialist Contradictions: A 'Think-Mark' for Rosa Luxemburg in the New Berlin Riccardo Bavaj 287

4.4 Challenging or Concretizing Cold War Narratives? Berlin's Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953 Anna Saunders 298

4.5 GDR Monuments in Unified Germany Mia Lee 308

4.6 Memorialization of the German-German Border in the Context of Constructions of Heimat Gerd Knischewski Ulla Spittler 318

4.7 The Fight in the Prison Car Park: Memorializing Germany's 'Double Past' in Torgau since 1990 Andrew H. Beattie 328

Section 5 Memorializing Germany's Ambivalent Legacies

5.1 Martin Luther - Rebel, Genius, Liberator: Politics and Marketing 1517-2017 Ulrike Zitzlsperger 341

5.2 Building Up and Tearing Down the Myth of German Colonialism: Colonial Denkmale and Mahnmale after 1945 Jason Verber 351

5.3 Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Post-War Wilhelmshaven Georg G?tz 360

5.4 The Memoralization of 9 November 1918 in the Two German States Arne Segelke 369

5.5 A Democratic Legacy? The Memorialization of the Weimar Republic and the Politics of History of the Federal Republic of Germany Sebastian Ullrich 379

5.6 Memorializing the Military: Traditions, Exhibitions, and Monuments in the West German Army from the l950s to the Present J?rg Echternkamp 388

5.7 The Legacy of Second German Empire Memorials after 1945 Bill Niven 399

Index 409

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