Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-472-03631-8
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge reigning views of Germany's postwar memory work by examining how specific urban centers apart from the nation's capital have wrestled with their respective Nazi legacies. A wide range of West and East German cities is profiled in the volume: prominent metropolises like Hamburg, dynamic regional centers like Dresden, gritty industrial cities like Wolfsburg, and idyllic rural towns like Quedlinburg. In employing historical, art historical, anthropological, and geographical methodologies to examine these and other important urban centers, the volume's case studies shed new light upon the complex ways in which the confrontation with the Nazi past has directly shaped the German urban landscape since the end of the Second World War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.

Jaskot, Paul B.

Über Autor(innen)

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University, USA and author of The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism and Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich.

Paul B. Jaskot is Associate Professor of Modern Art and Architectural History at DePaul University, USA and author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy.