Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

Dr Eloise Florence (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26903-3 (ISBN)

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The destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our historical, political and cultural identity. Here, Eloise Florence turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the Anglo-American consciousness.

Centered upon Teufelsberg – a hill in Berlin born from the rubble caused by Allied bombing – and other sites of violence across Germany's capital, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American audiences. Grounded in theories of new materialism and post-humanism, and drawing on extensive empirical and auto-ethnographic data, the issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memorializing war and trauma; remembering destruction as a means to advance or challenge traditional war mythologies; and curation as an entry point for tourists to reconsider the impact of British and American aerial raids, including modern drone warfare.

This innovative volume shines an important light on both the dark legacy of the aerial bombing of Berlin and the ways in which we record and read violent histories more generally. As such, Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin will be an invaluable resource for all scholars of World War II, memory culture and public history.

Eloise Florence is Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has published articles on the intersections of memory and archaeology, the intersections of memory and more-than-human matter, and the enduring mythologies of war. Eloise has also worked as research assistant, a copy-editor, and teacher across RMIT University, Monash University, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She currently works as a Research Officer at the Parliamentary Library at Parliament of Victoria, Australia.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: A Genealogy of Remembering Area Bombing
1. A History of Remembering through Place
2. Method: Gleaning Cultural Memory from Places
3. Introducing Teufelsberg as Layers of Linear History
4. Cultural Memory, Aerial Photography, and Bodily Violence
5. Teufelsberg as an Unruly Burial Ground
6. Bodies in the Stones
Conclusion: Active and Vibrant Rubble
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2025
Reihe/Serie	A Modern History of Politics and Violence
Zusatzinfo	30 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-26903-4 / 1350269034
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26903-3 / 9781350269033
Zustand	Neuware