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Memorialization in Germany since 1945

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Bill Niven

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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  2. Chloe Paver

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Bill Niven, Chloe Paver
      Pages 1-12

  3. Remembering German Losses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Volkstrauertag (People’s Day of Mourning) from 1922 to the Present

      • Alexandra Kaiser
      Pages 15-25

    3. Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialization of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965

      • Jörg Arnold
      Pages 26-36

    4. 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
      Pages 37-47

    5. Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees

      • Hans Hesse, Elke Purpus
      Pages 48-57

    6. A Memorial Laissez-Passer? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany

      • Daniela Sandler
      Pages 58-68

    7. Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission

      • David Livingstone
      Pages 69-77

    8. Neither Here nor There? Memorialization of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans

      • Dagmar Kift
      Pages 78-87

  4. Remembering Nazi Crimes, Perpetrators, and Victims

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Mediators: Memorialization Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen für politische Bildung)

      • Dieter K. Buse
      Pages 91-102

    3. Memorialization of Perpetrator Sites in Bavaria

      • Markus Urban
      Pages 103-113

    4. Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites — The Example of Peenemünde

      • Ulrike Dittrich
      Pages 114-123

    5. Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present, and Future

      • Susanne C. Knittel
      Pages 124-133

    6. Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany

      • Jens Nagel
      Pages 134-145

    7. (In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime

      • Thomas O. Haakenson
      Pages 146-156

    8. Memorializing the White Rose Resistance Group in Post-War Germany

      • Katie Rickard
      Pages 157-167

    9. The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past

      • Caroline Pearce
      Pages 168-177

  5. Remembering Jewish Suffering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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About this book

Difficult Pasts 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Bill Niven

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Chloe Paver

About the editors

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.

 

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