United City, Divided Memories? : Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin
Dirk. Verheyen
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Lanham : : Lexington Books, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (320 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A City and a Nation Between Memory and Future; Chapter 2: Capturing Memory and Crafting Identity; Part I: Victors and Adversaries: The Legacy of the Great Powers; Introduction; Chapter 3: Occupation, Confrontation, Departure: The Great Powers in Postwar Berlin; Chapter 4: Soviet Traces; Chapter 5: The Western Allies: A Vanishing Legacy?; Chapter 6:Great Powers on Display: A Brief Tale of Two Museums; Conclusion; Notes to Part I; Part II: Beyond Files and Trials: Public Remembrance and the Legacy of the Stasi. - Chapter 14:Painting and Tracing the WallConclusion: History, Memory, Symbolism; Notes to Part III; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. - IntroductionChapter 7: Bureaucratic Shield and Repressive Sword: Rise and Demise of the Stasi; Chapter 8: Tyrannical Banality on Display: The ""Stasi-Museum""; Chapter 9: The Commemoration of Persecution in Hohenschönhausen; Chapter 10: Coming to Terms with the ""Second"" German Dictatorship; Conclusion; Notes to Part II; Part III: The Berlin Wall: Meaning and Memory Introduction; Introduction; Chapter 11: Monumental Schizophrenia: The Berlin Wall and Concrete Closure; Chapter 12: Commemorating a Vanishing Monument; Chapter 13: Checkpoint and Watchtower Museums. - United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen studies monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves.
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| Emner | Berlin (Germany) - History
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Collective memory - Germany Berlin Memorials - Germany Berlin Vis mer... Berlin (Germany) - History - 1945-1990.
Germany (East). Germany History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Europe historie berlin tyskland øst-berlin vest-berlin muren kollektiv hukommelse identitet kalde krigen minnekultur |
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| ISBN | 0739118390. - 9780739118399. - 9780739118405
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