Places of memory : the case of the house of the Wannsee Conference / Katie Digan
In 1942, a group of high-ranking Nazis came together in a villa in Berlin to discuss the Final Solution, during what is now called the Wannsee Conference. Fifty years later that same villa was turned into a memorial site and museum for one of the most infamous episodes of the history of the Holocaus...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | Digan, Katie (Author) |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015] ©2015 |
| Series: | Palgrave Pivot
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | In 1942, a group of high-ranking Nazis came together in a villa in Berlin to discuss the Final Solution, during what is now called the Wannsee Conference. Fifty years later that same villa was turned into a memorial site and museum for one of the most infamous episodes of the history of the Holocaust. Today, hundreds of people a day visit the house to learn about its history. Why did it take so long for the house to become a 'site of memory'? And what happened to the house in the meantime? This book takes the case of the House of the Wannsee Conference as a starting point to investigate how and why buildings and places transform from regular places to 'carriers of memory'. How can a house become haunted by its past? And why do we visit historical places to get a sense of the past? |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | viii, 77 pages illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781137456403 |
