Views of Violence : Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials.

Intro -- Views of Violence -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction - Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials -- Part I - Museums -- Chapter 1 - Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German Museums -- Chapter 2 - The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, the Ardennes, Germany) -- Chapter 3 - Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Bundeswehr Military History Museum (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) -- Chapter 4 - In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights -- Chapter 5 - The Challenging Representation of National Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany -- Chapter 6 - "Warschau erhebt sich": The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic -- Part II - Memorials and Memorial Landscapes -- Chapter 7 - A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials, and Museum in the Hürtgenwald Region -- Chapter 8 - Contested Heroes, Contested Place: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna -- Chapter 9 - Commemorating Flight and Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe -- Chapter 10 - Local Battlefields as "Cultural Landscape" of Global Value?: Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage -- Afterword - The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War -- Index.

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