Nazi camps and their neighbouring communities

Titel: Nazi camps and their neighbouring communities : history, memory, and memorialization / Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson
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Ausgabe: First edition
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Umfang: xviii, 289 Seiten : Karte
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780198789772
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. xi
  • Abbreviations and Their Translations
  • p. xiii
  • Foreign Terms
  • p. xvii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • 'You Always Had One Foot in the Camp': Wartime Interactions between Camps and Communities
  • p. 12
  • Accommodating Camps in Host Localities
  • p. 14
  • KZ Neuengamme: An Industrial Camp at the Rural Extremes of Hamburg City
  • p. 14
  • KZ Natzweiler: Exploiting Alsatian Pink Granite at the 'Camp d'en Haut'
  • p. 18
  • Kamp Vught: The 'Model' Camp
  • p. 23
  • Interactions, Encounters, and the Social Aspect
  • p. 28
  • Mutual Beneficiaries
  • p. 41
  • Organized Assistance
  • p. 50
  • 2
  • Camps after Camps: Internment and Memorialization in the Early Post-War Period
  • p. 56
  • From KZ to Internment Camp
  • p. 58
  • Vught and Natzweiler
  • p. 58
  • Neuengamme
  • p. 64
  • Municipal Relations with the Internment Camps
  • p. 66
  • Early Memorialization of the Camps
  • p. 69
  • Provisional Monuments, Memorial Ceremonies, and Exhibitions
  • p. 70
  • The First Official KZ Monuments
  • p. 79
  • Acknowledging Fraternity
  • p. 85
  • KZs amidst Local War Memory
  • p. 90
  • KZs as Sites of Memory
  • p. 94
  • 3
  • Pragmatism and Memorialization: The Afterlives of Former KZs in the 1950s and Early 1960s
  • p. 103
  • Pragmatism and the Displacement of KZ Memory
  • p. 105
  • Vught: Multipurpose Refunctionalization
  • p. 106
  • Neuengamme: A Modern Penal Facility
  • p. 112
  • Natzweiler-Struthof: Generating Revenue from Relics
  • p. 119
  • Embracing KZ Memory, With or Without an Official Monument
  • p. 120
  • KZ Rites and Rituals
  • p. 121
  • Mobilizing KZ Memory for Political Protest
  • p. 126
  • Memorial Responsibilities
  • p. 128
  • Camp Memory in Other Contexts
  • p. 132
  • 4
  • Narratives, Agents, and Issues: Memorial Politics in the 1950s and Early 1960s
  • p. 140
  • Entrenched Disputes: The Importance of Locality at the National Memorial to the Deportation, Natzweiler-Struthof
  • p. 141
  • The Contentious Matter of Heritage Protection
  • p. 142
  • Land Ownership, Acquisition, and Indemnification
  • p. 148
  • Building and Funding the Monument
  • p. 151
  • An Absence of Locality at Neuengamme?
  • p. 159
  • The First Neuengamme Monument: An Understatement of Commemoration
  • p. 160
  • The International Monument and the Increasing Importance of Place
  • p. 165
  • 5
  • The Relative Quiet of KZ Memorialization
  • p. 171
  • The Routinization of Remembrance?
  • p. 171
  • The Changing Forms and Effects of KZ Memory
  • p. 180
  • Growing Sensitivities
  • p. 183
  • Pragmatic Legacies
  • p. 188
  • 6
  • Material and Moral Reassessments of the KZ Past: From the 1980s into the New Millennium
  • p. 191
  • The Changing Parameters of KZ Memory
  • p. 192
  • KZ Natzweiler-Struthof
  • p. 192
  • KZ Neuengamme
  • p. 194
  • Kamp Vught
  • p. 201
  • Acknowledging an Entwined History
  • p. 207
  • Neuengamme's Religious Reckoning
  • p. 208
  • Enlarging the Topographical Scope of KZ Memory
  • p. 219
  • Municipal Manifestations of Memory
  • p. 224
  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Enlightenment: Twenty-First-Century KZ Memorials
  • p. 230
  • Natzweiler-Struthof
  • p. 230
  • Neuengamme
  • p. 235
  • Vught
  • p. 240
  • Conclusion
  • p. 244
  • Bibliography
  • p. 253
  • Index
  • p. 273