Memorialization in Germany since 1945 [Paperback]

Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones.List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction;? B.Niven & C.Paver PART I: REMEMBERING GERMAN LOSSES The Volkstrauertag (People's Day of Mourning), from 1922 to the Present; A.Kaiser Beyond Usable Pasts: Rethinking the Memorialisation of the Strategic Air War in Germany, 1940 to 1965; J.Arnold Roads to Revision: Disputes over Street Names Referring to the German Eastern Territories after the First and Second World War in the Cities of Dresden and Mainz, 1921-1972; C.Lotz Monuments and Commemorative Sites for German Expellees A Memorial Laisser-Passez? Church Exhibitions and National Victimhood in Germany; D.Sandler Remembering on Foreign Soil: The Activities of the German War Graves Commission; D.Livingstone Neither Here nor There? Memorialisation of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans; D.Kift PART II: REMEMBERING NAZI CRIMES, PERPETRATORS?AND VICTIMS Memorialisation Endeavours of the Regional Offices for Political Education (Landeszentralen f?r Politische Bildung); D.K.Buse Memorialisation of Perpetrator Sites in Bavaria'; M.Urban Pieces of the Past: Souvenirs from Nazi Sites  The Example of Peenem?nde; U.Dittrich Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present and Future; S.C.Knittel Remembering Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Murder in Post-War Germany; J.Nagel (In)Visible Trauma: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime; T.O.Haakenson Memorialising the White Rose Resistance Group in Post-War Germany; K.Rickard The Role of German Perpetrator Sites in Teaching and Confronting the Nazi Past ; C.Pearce PART IlÂ