Places of memory : the case of the house of the Wannsee Conference /
In 1942, a group of high-ranking Nazis came together in a villa in Berlin to discuss the Final Solution, during what is now called the Wannsee Conference. Fifty years later that same villa was turned into a memorial site and museum for one of the most infamous episodes of the history of the Holocaus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2015]
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | In 1942, a group of high-ranking Nazis came together in a villa in Berlin to discuss the Final Solution, during what is now called the Wannsee Conference. Fifty years later that same villa was turned into a memorial site and museum for one of the most infamous episodes of the history of the Holocaust. Today, hundreds of people a day visit the house to learn about its history. Why did it take so long for the house to become a 'site of memory?' And what happened to the house in the meantime? This book takes the case of the House of the Wannsee Conference as a starting point to investigate how and why buildings and places transform from regular places to 'carriers of memory.' How can a house become haunted by its past? And why do we visit historical places to get a sense of the past? |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 77 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-75) and index. |
| ISBN: | 113745640X 9781137456403 |