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Author : Lauren Eileen Cipollone
Release : 2008
Genre : Holocaust memorials
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Book Synopsis Exploring Approaches to Memorialization in Germany Since 1945 by : Lauren Eileen Cipollone
Download or read book Exploring Approaches to Memorialization in Germany Since 1945 written by Lauren Eileen Cipollone. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Niven
Release : 2009-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 500/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memorialization in Germany since 1945 by : B. Niven
Download or read book Memorialization in Germany since 1945 written by B. Niven. This book was released on 2009-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jenny Wüstenberg
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Genre : HISTORY
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Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany by : Jenny Wüstenberg
Download or read book Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany written by Jenny Wüstenberg. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending history and social science, this book tracks the role of social movements in shaping German public memory and values since 1945. Drawn from extensive original research, it offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of German democracy through civic confrontation with the violence of its past. Told through the stories of memory activists, the study upends some of the conventional wisdom about modern German political history. An analysis of the decades-long struggle over memory and democracy shows how grassroots actors challenged and then took over public institutions of memorialization. In the process, confrontation of the Holocaust has been pushed to the centre of political culture. In unified Germany, memory politics have shifted again, as activists from East Germany have brought attention to the crimes of the East German state.
Author : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Release : 2015-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 319/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Berlin by : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Download or read book Beyond Berlin written by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in the larger German struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism. The contributors challenge reigning views of how the task of "coming to terms with the Nazi Past" (Vergangenheitsbewältigung) has been pursued at specific urban and architectural sites. Focusing on west as well as east German cities—whether prominent metropolises like Hamburg, dynamic regional centers like Dresden, gritty industrial cities like Wolfsburg, or idyllic rural towns like Quedlinburg—the volume's case studies of individual urban centers provide readers with a more complex sense of the manifold ways in which the confrontation with the Nazi past has directly shaped the evolving form of the German urban landscape since the end of the Second World War. In these multidisciplinary discussions of important intersections with historical, art historical, anthropological, and geographical concerns, this collection deepens our understanding of the diverse ways in which the memory of National Socialism has profoundly influenced postwar German culture and society. Scholars and students interested in National Socialism, modern Germany, memory studies, urban studies and planning, geography, industrial design, and art and architectural history will find the volume compelling. Beyond Berlin will appeal to general audiences knowledgeable about the Nazi past as well as those interested in historic preservation, memorials, and the overall dynamics of commemoration.
Author : Felix Robin Schulz
Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 140/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death in East Germany, 1945-1990 by : Felix Robin Schulz
Download or read book Death in East Germany, 1945-1990 written by Felix Robin Schulz. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and sheds more light on the East German state and its society.
