Beyond Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : twelve German cities confront the Nazi past / / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Paul B. Jaskot, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820586903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-55588-X; 9786612555886; 0-472-02588-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Collana: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
• Altri autori (Persone): RosenfeldGavriel David <1967->; JaskotPaul B. <1963->
• Disciplina: 940.53/1
• Soggetti: Memorialization - Germany - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Germany; Historic preservation - Germany - History - 20th century; War memorials - Germany; Holocaust memorials - Germany; Collective memory - Germany; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Urban Space and the Nazi Past in Postwar Germany / Paul B. Jaskot and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld; Part 1: Sites of Reconstruction: Between Reclaiming and Evading the Past; The Politics of New Beginnings: The Continued Exclusion of the Nazi Past in Dresden's Cityscape / Susanne Vees-Gulani; Reconciling Competing Pasts in Postwar Cologne / Jeffry M. Diefendorf; Evading What the Nazis Left Behind: An Ethnographic and Phenomenological Examination of Historic Preservation in Postwar Rostock / Susan Mazur-Stommen; Part 2: Sites of New Construction: Industrial Cities and the Embrace of ModernismMemento Machinae: Engineering the Past in Wolfsburg / Jan Otakar Fischer; Inventing Industrial Culture in Essen / Kathleen James-Chakraborty; Part 3: Perpetrator Sites: Representing Nazi Criminality; The Reich Party Rally Grounds Revisited: The Nazi Past in Postwar ; Nuremberg / Paul B. Jaskot; Memory and the Museum: Munich's Struggle to Create a Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld; Concrete Memory: The Struggle over Air-Raid and Submarine Shelters in Bremen after 1945 / Marc Buggeln and Inge MarszolekRestored, Reassessed, Redeemed: The SS Past at the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg / Annah Kellogg-Krieg; Part 4: Jewish Sites: Commemorating the Holocaust; The Politics of Antifascism: Historic Preservation, Jewish Sites, and the Rebuilding of Potsdam's Altstadt / Michael Meng; Marking Absence: Remembrance and Hamburg's Holocaust Memorials / Natasha Goldman; The New Börneplatz Memorial and the Nazi Past in Frankfurt am Main / Susanne Schönborn; Epilogue: The View from Berlin / Brian LaddContributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts