Remnants of Wehrmacht soldiers : burial and commemoration practices of German soldiers of the second World War in Russia and Europe, 1941-2023 /
"Today, fallen soldiers of the Second World War find their resting places across the globe. While many nations openly honor their military, Germany maintains a more reserved approach to its war dead. During the war, fallen soldiers were hailed as heroes, but after 1945, the treatment of the dec...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2024]
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| Series: | Studies in contemporary history (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
v. 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- Soldiers' graves
- Why Russia?
- Church cemeteries and nature parks
- The grave of the common soldier
- The establishment of modern military cemeteries
- The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) : the start of a German war grave care
- Staging the "cult of the dead" : cemeteries and memorial days
- The German burial organisation during the second World War
- Groves of honour and the heroic landscape : cemetery designs
- The Nazi death cult and its materialisation in graves and cemeteries
- The shift in meaning
- Wehrmacht soldier's graves in German-Russian memory politics
- Exhumations and reburials.