The Allied air war and urban memory: the legacy of strategic bombing in Germany

The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be t...

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Beteilige Person: Arnold, Jörg 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Dubai ; Tokyo ; Mexico City Cambridge University Press 2011
Schriftenreihe:Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 35
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792571
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792571
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792571
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792571
Zusammenfassung:The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be traced from the 1940s to the present. While the death of half a million civilians and the destruction of much of Germany's urban landscape provided 'usable' rallying points in the great political confrontations of the day, the cataclysms were above all remembered on a local level, in the very spaces that had been hit by the bombs and transformed beyond recognition. The author investigates how lived experience in the shadow of Nazism and war was translated into cultural memory by local communities in Kassel and Magdeburg struggling to find ways of coming to terms with catastrophic events unprecedented in living memory
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 387 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511792571
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511792571