Memorialization in Germany since 1945

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• 1922
• Anti-Semitism
• colonialism
• Dachau
• empire
• Europe
• Germany
• history
• Holocaust
• ideology
• Judaism
• Memoria
• National Socialism
• political education
• Weimar

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Bill Niven

• University of Exeter, UK

  Chloe Paver

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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