Memorialization in Germany since 1945

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Volkstrauertag (People’s Day of Mourning) from 1922 to the Present....Pages 15-25
Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialization of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965....Pages 26-36
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....Pages 37-47
Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees....Pages 48-57
A Memorial Laissez-Passer? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany....Pages 58-68
Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission....Pages 69-77
Neither Here nor There? Memorialization of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans....Pages 78-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
The Mediators: Memorialization Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen für politische Bildung)....Pages 91-102
Memorialization of Perpetrator Sites in Bavaria....Pages 103-113
Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites — The Example of Peenemünde....Pages 114-123
Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present, and Future....Pages 124-133
Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany....Pages 134-145
(In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime....Pages 146-156
Memorializing the White Rose Resistance Group in Post-War Germany....Pages 157-167
The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past....Pages 168-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Memorialization through Documentation: Holocaust Commemoration among Jewish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany....Pages 181-191
Memorializing Persecuted Jews in Dachau and Other West German Concentration Camp Memorial Sites....Pages 192-204
Remembering Nazi Anti-Semitism in the GDR....Pages 205-213
Rosenstraße: A Complex Site of German-Jewish Memory....Pages 214-223
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The Counter-Monument: Memory Shaped by Male Post-War Legacies....Pages 224-232
Stumbling Blocks: A Decentralized Memorial to Holocaust Victims....Pages 233-242
Affective Memory, Ineffective Functionality: Experiencing Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe....Pages 243-252
From Monuments to Installations: Aspects of Memorialization in Historical Exhibitions about the National Socialist Era....Pages 253-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Heroes and Victims: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Monuments and Memorials in the GDR....Pages 267-275
Beating Nazis and Exporting Socialism: Representing East German War Memory to Foreign Tourists....Pages 276-286
Memorializing Socialist Contradictions: A ‘Think-Mark’ for Rosa Luxemburg in the New Berlin....Pages 287-297
Challenging or Concretizing Cold War Narratives? Berlin’s Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953....Pages 298-307
GDR Monuments in Unified Germany....Pages 308-317
Memorialization of the German-German Border in the Context of Constructions of Heimat....Pages 318-327
The Fight in the Prison Car Park: Memorializing Germany’s ‘Double Past’ in Torgau since 1990....Pages 328-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Martin Luther — Rebel, Genius, Liberator: Politics and Marketing 1517–2017....Pages 341-350
Building Up and Tearing Down the Myth of German Colonialism: Colonial Denkmale and Mahnmale after 1945....Pages 351-359
Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Post-War Wilhelmshaven....Pages 360-368
The Memoralization of 9 November 1918 in the Two German States....Pages 369-378
A Democratic Legacy? The Memorialization of the Weimar Republic and the Politics of History of the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 379-387
Memorializing the Military: Traditions, Exhibitions, and Monuments in the West German Army from the 1950s to the Present....Pages 388-398
The Legacy of Second German Empire Memorials after 1945....Pages 399-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-421