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1 online resource (412 pages). |
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| Series |
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, 35 ; v. 35
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 35.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: a poem and an image; Approach; Historiographical overview; Thesis and chapter outline; 1 From experience to memory: the emergence of lieux de mémoire, 1943-1947; Introduction: what makes a memory place?; Different contexts; Kassel and the air raid of 22 October 1943; National Socialist propaganda and the air war; 'Let hatred be our watchword': the propagandistic treatment of the fire raid on Kassel; 'Kassel is no more!': semi-public voices; The view from the outside; Views from the centre. |
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Gender, function, raceLoss; Casting blame; Magdeburg and the air raid of 16 January 1945; Rupture as continuity: 10 May 1631 and 16 January 1945; Conclusion; Part I Commemorating death; 2 'Soldiers of the Heimat': commemorating the dead, 1940-1945; Introduction; 'Never has a sacrifice been more worthwhile': civilian death as heroic sacrifice; The semiotics of commemoration; Themes; The vocabulary of commemoration; 'Come, and let us return unto the Lord': catastrophic rupture as affliction; Themes; Conclusion; 3 'In quiet memory'?: post-war memory cultures, 1945-1979. |
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Introduction: a usable past?Identifying the dead; Graves; Memorials; Commemorating the dead; Serving the dead: mortui viventes obligant; Conclusion; 4 The return of the dead: the renaissance of commemoration, 1979-1995; Introduction: shifting contexts; Between 'day of struggle' and 'prayer for peace': commemorative formats in the 1980s; Between harbinger and retribution: the semantics of commemoration; 'Great Carthage waged three wars': mass death as harbinger of atomic annihilation; 'Judgements that we bring on to ourselves': mass death as retribution. |
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'Mine eyes do fail with tears': dealing with pain'Or does memory ... resist the changes of today?': commemoration in the 1990s; 'Two cities -- one fate': the air war as national founding myth; 'The same confidence and commitment': the woman of the rubble as example; Conclusion; Part II Confronting destruction; 5 'What we have lost': framing urban destruction, 1940-1960; Introduction; Establishing the parameters, 1940-45; 'Bombs on a thousand years': urban destruction as a -crime against Kultur'; 'Heimat Remains!'?; Articulating loss, 1945-60; The language of figures; The language of images. |
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'Like a fellow human being that has left us': nostalgiaVisualising the 'disfigured face': rubble photography; 'The new city, more beautiful than ever': Heimat reborn?; Conclusion; 6 From celebration to lamentation: dealing with the legacy of the air war, 1960-1995; Introduction; The 'closed wound': celebrating the city rebuilt, 1960-1975; Allied bombing as 'zero hour'; Born 'at the moment death [came] over the city': celebrating the new beginning; Revisiting Alt-Kassel; The 'painful scar': mourning the second destruction, 1975-1995; Lieu de mémoire as site of mourning; The return of nostalgia. |
| Note |
Exposing the zero hour as a myth. |
| Summary |
A first study in English of the cultural legacy of World War II bombing in post-war Germany. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-374) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bombardment of Magdeburg (Magdeburg, Germany : 1945) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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BMBF-Statusseminar. |
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Kassel (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1943.
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Magdeburg (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Kassel.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Magdeburg.
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Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- Kassel -- History.
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Bombing, Aerial. |
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Germany -- Kassel. |
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History. |
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Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- Magdeburg -- History.
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Germany -- Magdeburg. |
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Collective memory -- Germany -- Kassel.
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Collective memory. |
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Collective memory -- Germany -- Magdeburg.
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arnold, Jörg. Allied Air War and Urban Memory : The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107004962 |
| ISBN |
9781139117586 |
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1139117580 |
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1283296225 |
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9781283296229 |
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9781139128247 (electronic book) |
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1139128248 (electronic book) |
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9781107004962 (electronic book) |
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1107004969 (electronic book) |
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9780511792571 (ebook) |
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0511792573 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
9786613296221 |
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