Memorialization in Germany since 1945

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Section 1 Remembering German Losses......Page 30
1.1 The Volkstrauertag (People's Day of Mourning) from 1922 to the Present......Page 32
1.2 Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialization of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965......Page 43
1.3 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......Page 54
1.4 Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees......Page 65
1.5 A Memorial Laissez-Passer? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany......Page 75
1.6 Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission......Page 86
1.7 Neither Here nor There? Memorialization of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans......Page 95
Section 2 Remembering Nazi Crimes, Perpetrators, and Victims......Page 106
2.1 The Mediators: Memorialization Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen für politische Bildung)......Page 108
2.2 Memorialization of Perpetrator Sites in Bavaria......Page 120
2.3 Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites – The Example of Peenemünde......Page 131
2.4 Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present, and Future......Page 141
2.5 Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany......Page 151
2.6 (In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime......Page 163
2.7 Memorializing the White Rose Resistance Group in Post-War Germany......Page 174
2.8 The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past......Page 185
Section 3 Remembering Jewish Suffering......Page 196
3.1 Memorialization through Documentation: Holocaust Commemoration among Jewish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany......Page 198
3.2 Memorializing Persecuted Jews in Dachau and Other West German Concentration Camp Memorial Sites......Page 209
3.3 Remembering Nazi Anti-Semitism in the GDR......Page 222
3.4 Rosenstraße: A Complex Site of German-Jewish Memory......Page 231
3.5 The Counter-Monument: Memory Shaped by Male Post-War Legacies......Page 241
3.6 Stumbling Blocks: A Decentralized Memorial to Holocaust Victims......Page 250
3.7 Affective Memory, Ineffective Functionality: Experiencing Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe......Page 260
3.8 From Monuments to Installations: Aspects of Memorialization in Historical Exhibitions about the National Socialist Era......Page 270
Section 4 Socialist Memory and Memory of Socialism......Page 282
4.1 Heroes and Victims: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Monuments and Memorials in the GDR......Page 284
4.2 Beating Nazis and Exporting Socialism: Representing East German War Memory to Foreign Tourists......Page 293
4.3 Memorializing Socialist Contradictions: A 'Think-Mark' for Rosa Luxemburg in the New Berlin......Page 304
4.4 Challenging or Concretizing Cold War Narratives? Berlin's Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953......Page 315
4.5 GDR Monuments in Unified Germany......Page 325
4.6 Memorialization of the German-German Border in the Context of Constructions of Heimat......Page 335
4.7 The Fight in the Prison Car Park: Memorializing Germany's 'Double Past' in Torgau since 1990......Page 345
Section 5 Memorializing Germany's Ambivalent Legacies......Page 356
5.1 Martin Luther – Rebel, Genius, Liberator: Politics and Marketing 1517–2017......Page 358
5.2 Building Up and Tearing Down the Myth of German Colonialism: Colonial Denkmale and Mahnmale after 1945......Page 368
5.3 Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Post-War Wilhelmshaven......Page 377
5.4 The Memoralization of 9 November 1918 in the Two German States......Page 386
5.5 A Democratic Legacy? The Memorialization of the Weimar Republic and the Politics of History of the Federal Republic of Germany......Page 396
5.6 Memorializing the Military: Traditions, Exhibitions, and Monuments in the West German Army from the 1950s to the Present......Page 405
5.7 The Legacy of Second German Empire Memorials after 1945......Page 416
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