Views of Violence

Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Jörg Echternkamp, Stephan Jaeger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-126-0 (ISBN)

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The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Jörg Echternkamp is Research Director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw), Potsdam, and Associate Professor of Modern History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

List of Illustrations

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Jörg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger

PART I: MUSEUMS

Chapter 1. Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German Museums

Thomas Thiemeyer

Chapter 2. The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, Ardennes, Germany)

Stephan Jaeger

Chapter 3. Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Bundeswehr Military Museum (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)

Jana Hawig

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

Erin Johnston-Weiss

Chapter 5. The Challenging Representation of National-Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany

Sarah Kleinmann

Chapter 6. “Warschau erhebt sich”: The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic

Winson Chu

PART II: MEMORIALS AND MEMORIAL LANDSCAPES

Chapter 7. A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials and Museum in the Hürtgenwald Region

Karola Fings

Chapter 8. Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna

Peter Pirker, Magnus Koch, and Johannes Kramer

Chapter 9. Commemorating Flight and Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe

Jeffrey Luppes

Chapter 10. Local Battlefields as “Cultural Landscape” of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage

Jörg Echternkamp

Afterword: The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War

Jay Winter

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78920-126-8 / 1789201268
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-126-0 / 9781789201260
Zustand	Neuware