| Portion of title |
Representing the Second World War in German and European museums and memorials |
| Series |
Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 19
|
| Partial contents |
Introduction : Representing the Second World War in German and European museums and memorials / Jorg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger -- Part 1. Museums -- Multi-voiced and personal : Second World War remembrance in German museums / Thomas Thiemeyer -- The experientiality of the Second World War in German and European in twenty-first-century European museums (Normandy, Ardennes, Germany) / Stephan Jaeger -- Exhibiting images of war : the use of historic media in the Militarhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) / Jana Hawig -- In the eye of the beholder : gaze and distance through photographic collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Erin Johnston-Weiss -- The challenging representation of National-Socialist perpetrators in exhibitions : two examples from Austria and Germany / Sarah Kleinmann -- "Warschau erhebt sich" : the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the nationalization of European identity in the Berlin Republic / Winson Chu -- |
| Partial contents |
Part 2. Memorials and memorial landscapes -- A culture of remembrance, memorials and museum in the Hurtgenwald region / Karola Fings -- Contested heroes, contested places: conflicting visions of war at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna / Peter Pirker, Magnus Koch, Johannes Kramer -- Commemorating flight and expulsion vor Ort : local expellee monuments in Central and Eastern Europe / Jeffrey Luppes -- Local battlefields as "cultural landscape" of global value? Views of war in Normandy and the classification as world heritage / Jorg Echternkamp -- Afterword -- The memory boom and the commemoration of the Second World War / Jay Winter. |
| Abstract |
"Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018050326 |
| ISBN | 9781789201260 (hardback : alk. paper) |
