| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 566 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Russian and East European studies
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Series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: redemptive reconstruction -- Cities of the Reich -- Cities of dreams -- Miracle cities -- Cities of the future -- Cities without past -- Synthetic cities -- Conclusion: selective cities. |
| Summary |
"Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler-in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wrocław (Poland) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.
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Leipzig (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.
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Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.
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Collective memory.
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Collective memory. |
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Architecture and state.
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Architecture and state. |
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Nationalism and architecture.
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Nationalism and architecture. |
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Architecture and society.
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Architecture and society. |
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Architecture -- Political aspects.
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Architecture -- Political aspects. |
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Architecture. |
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Urban renewal -- Citizen participation.
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Urban renewal -- Citizen participation. |
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Urban renewal -- Political aspects.
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Urban renewal -- Political aspects. |
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Urban renewal. |
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HISTORY / General. |
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Poland -- Wrocław. |
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Germany -- Leipzig. |
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Germany -- Frankfurt am Main. |
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Buildings. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Demshuk, Andrew, 1980- Three cities after Hitler. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021] 9780822946977 (DLC) 2021030568 (OCoLC)1225192571 |
| ISBN |
9780822988571 (electronic book) |
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0822988577 (electronic book) |
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9780822946977 |
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0822946971 |
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