ISBN:
9780415419918
,
9780415419925
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 231 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Difficult Heritage : Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond
DDC:
943/.324086
Keywords:
Postwar reconstruction
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National socialism Psychological aspects
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Cultural property
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Collective memory
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Nuremberg (Germany) - History - 20th century
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Nuremberg (Germany) - History - 20th century
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Electronic books
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Nuremberg (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc
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Nuremberg (Germany) History 20th century
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Nürnberg
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Nationalsozialismus
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Architektur
Abstract:
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 between he
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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