Exhibiting the Nazi Past : Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial

This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collab...

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1. Verfasser: Paver, Chloe E. M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:The Holocaust and its Contexts
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Schlagworte:History of World War II and the Holocaust World War, 1939-1945 Europe-History-1492- Historiography Civilization-History Europe, Central-History
Umfang:Online-Ressource (X, 304 p. 16 illus. in color, online resource)
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Zusammenfassung:This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds
1. Introduction -- 2. Between the Material and the Immaterial -- 3. Material Experiences, 1933-45 -- 4. Material Collapse, 1945 -- 5. Material After-Lives between the Attic and the Museum -- 6. Conclusion -- Index
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource (X, 304 p. 16 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:9783319770840
3319770845
9783319770833
3319770837
9783319770857
3319770853
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-77084-0