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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459319503321

Autore

Macdonald Sharon

Titolo

Difficult heritage : negotiating the Nazi past in Nuremberg and beyond / / Sharon Macdonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-134-11105-3

1-134-11106-1

1-282-88287-2

9786612882876

0-203-88866-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

943/.324086

Soggetti

Postwar reconstruction - Germany - Nuremberg

National socialism - Psychological aspects

Collective memory - Germany - Nuremberg

Cultural property - Germany - Nuremberg

Electronic books.

Nuremberg (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc

Nuremberg (Germany) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 BUILDING HERITAGE: 'Words in stone'?; 3 DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON; 4 PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT; 5 ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis; 6 COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; 7 NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage; 8 VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE; 9 UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg - a city whose name is



indelibly linked with Nazism - to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship bet