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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ILLUSTRATIONS vii
- PREFACE ix
- ABBREVIATIONS x
- INTRODUCTION Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials 1
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PART I Museums
- CHAPTER 1 Multi-Voiced and Personal Second World War Remembrance in German Museums 27
- CHAPTER 2 The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, the Ardennes, Germany) 52
- CHAPTER 3 Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Bundeswehr Military History Museum (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) 75
- CHAPTER 4 In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 92
- CHAPTER 5 The Challenging Representation of National Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany 109
- CHAPTER 6 “Warschau erhebt sich” The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic 129
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PART II Memorials and Memorial Landscapes
- CHAPTER 7 A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials, and Museum in the Hürtgenwald Region 151
- CHAPTER 8 Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna 174
- CHAPTER 9 Commemorating Flight and Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe 215
- CHAPTER 10 Local Battlefields as “Cultural Landscape” of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage 233
- AFTERWORD The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War 252
- INDEX 261
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ILLUSTRATIONS vii
- PREFACE ix
- ABBREVIATIONS x
- INTRODUCTION Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials 1
-
PART I Museums
- CHAPTER 1 Multi-Voiced and Personal Second World War Remembrance in German Museums 27
- CHAPTER 2 The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, the Ardennes, Germany) 52
- CHAPTER 3 Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Bundeswehr Military History Museum (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) 75
- CHAPTER 4 In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 92
- CHAPTER 5 The Challenging Representation of National Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany 109
- CHAPTER 6 “Warschau erhebt sich” The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic 129
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PART II Memorials and Memorial Landscapes
- CHAPTER 7 A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials, and Museum in the Hürtgenwald Region 151
- CHAPTER 8 Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna 174
- CHAPTER 9 Commemorating Flight and Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe 215
- CHAPTER 10 Local Battlefields as “Cultural Landscape” of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage 233
- AFTERWORD The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War 252
- INDEX 261