Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany 1
4. Part I Digitally Researching the History of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust
5. Chapter 2 Traces of Jewish Hamburg: A Digital Source Edition of German-Jewish History 17
6. Chapter 3 Out of the Storage Cabinet and into the World: The Use of State-of-the-Art Digital Technology to Provide Contextualized Online Access to Historical Nazi Documents, as Practiced by the Arolsen Archives 39
7. Part II Digitally Writing the History of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust
8. Chapter 4 “At Least He Was Cautioned”: Digitally Researching the Gestapo’s Ruling Practices 57
9. Chapter 5 Digital Discourse Analysis of Language Use under National Socialism: Methodological Reflections and Applications 99
10. Part III Digital Exhibitions and Digital Forms of Commemoration
11. Chapter 6 Digitizing a Gigantic Nazi Construction: 3D-Mapping of Bunker Valentin in Bremen 133
12. Chapter 7 The National Socialist Prison System and the Illusive Appeal of Digital Maps 169
13. Chapter 8 Authenticity and Authority in German Memorial Sites 181
14. Further Readings on Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany and Topics in This Book: A Selection of Academic Scholarship and Online Resources 203
15. Contributors 223
16. Index 227
17. Open-Access-Transformation in History 231