Views of Violence

Joerg Echternkamp is a Research Director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, and an Associate Professor of Modern History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.Stephan Jaeger is a Professor of German Studies and the Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and MemorialsJoerg Echternkamp and Stephan JaegerPART I: MUSEUMSChapter 1. Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German MuseumsThomas ThiemeyerChapter 2. The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, Ardennes, Germany)Stephan JaegerChapter 3. Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Militaerhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)Jana HawigChapter 4. In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human RightsErin Johnston-WeissChapter 5. The Challenging Representation of National-Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and GermanySarah KleinmannChapter 6. "Warschau erhebt sich": The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin RepublicWinson ChuPART II: MEMORIALS AND MEMORIAL LANDSCAPESChapter 7. A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials and Museum in the Haertgenwald RegionKarola FingsChapter 8. Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in ViennaPeter Pirker, Magnus Koch, and Johannes KramerChapter 9. Commemorating Flight & Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern EuropeJeffrey LuppesChapter 10. Local Battlefields as "Cultural Landscape" of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World HeritageJoerg EchternkampAfterword: The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World WarJay WinterBibliographyIndex

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