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. INDICE: - List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; B.Niven ; C.Paver - PART I: REMEMBERING GERMAN LOSSES - The Volkstrauertag (Peopleb s Day of Mourning), from 1922 to the Present; A.Kaiser - Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialisation of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965; J.Arnold - Roads to Revision: Disputes over Street Names Referring to the German Eastern Territories after the First and Second World War in the Cities of Dresden and Mainz, 1921-1972; C.Lotz - Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees - A Memorial Laisser-Passez? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany; D.Sandler - Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission; D.Livingstone - Neither Here nor There? Memorialisation of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans; D.Kift - PART II: REMEMBERING NAZI CRIMES, PERPETRATORS AND VICTIMS - Memorialisation Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen für PolitischeBildung); D.K.Buse - Memorialisation of Perpetrator Sites in Bavariab ; M.Urban - Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites b The Example of Peenemünde; U.Dittrich - Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present and Future; S.C.Knittel - Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany; J.Nagel - (In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragsetb s Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime; T.O.Haakenson - Memorialising the White RoseResistance Group in Post-War Germany; K.Rickard - The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past; C.Pearce - PART III: REMEMBERING JEWISH SUFFERING - Memorialisation through Documentation: Holocaust Commemoration among Jewish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany; L.Jockusch - Memorialising Persecuted Jews in Dachau and Other West German Concentration Camp Memorial Sites; H.Marcuse - Remembering Nazi Anti-Semitism in the GDR; B.Niven - Rosenstraße: A Complex Site of German-Jewish Memory; H.J.Potter - The Counter-Monument: Memory Shaped by Male Post-War Legacy?; C.Tomberger - Stumbling Blocks: A Decentralised Memorial to Holocaust Victims; M.Imort - Affective Memory, Ineffective Functionality: Experiencing Berlinb s Memorial to theMurdered Jews of Europe; B.Sion - From Monuments to Installations: Aspects ofMemorialisation in Historical Exhibitions about the National Socialist Era; C.Paver - PART IV: SOCIALIST MEMORY AND MEMORY OF SOCIALISM - Heroes and Victims: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Monuments and Memorials in the GDR; S.Scharnowski - Beating Nazis and Exporting Socialism: Representing East German War Memory to Foreign Tourists; L.Fallwell - Memorialising Socialist Contradictions:A b Think-Markb for Rosa Luxemburg in the New Berlin; R.Bavaj - Challenging or Concretising Cold War Narratives? Berlinb s Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953b ; A.Saunders - Mia Lee (University of Warwick): b GDR Monuments in Unified Germany; M.Lee - Memorialisation of the German-German Border in the Context of Constructions of Heimat; G.Knischewski ; U.Spittler - The Fight in the Prison Car Park: Memorialising Germanyb s b Double Pastb in Torgau since 1990;A.Beattie - PART V:MEMORIALISING GERMANYb S AMBIVALENT LEGACIES - Martin Luther b Rebel, Genius, Liberator: Politics and Marketing 1517-2017; U.Zitzlsperger - Building Up and Tearing Down the Myth of German Colonialism: Colonial Denkmale and Mahnmale after 1945; J.Verber - Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Post-War Wilhelmshaven; G.Götz - The Memorialisation of 9 November 1918 in theTwo German States; A.Segelke - A Democratic Legacy? The Memorialisation of the Weimar Republic and the Politcs of History of the Federal Republic of Germany; S.Ullrich - Memorialising the Military: Traditions, Exhibitions, and Monuments in the West German Army from the 1950s; J.Echternkamp - The Legacy of Second German Empire Memorials after 1945; B.Niven - Notes
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20703-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 18/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés