Krieg im Museum
Präsentationen des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Museen und Gedenkstätten des östlichen Europa
Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Barbara Distel, Etienne Francois, Regina Fritz, Christian Ganzer, Monika Heinemann, Martin Jung, Ekaterina Keding, Petr Koura, Sabrina Lausen, Ulrike Lunow, Hannah Maischein, Piotr Maciej Majewski, Ekaterina Makhotina, Ekaterina Melnikova, Martin Schulze Wessel, Iryna Skoklina, Thomas Thiemeyer
The authors of this anthology compare for the first time the meaning of the museums and memorials for the debates surrounding the memory of World War II in Eastern Europe. No other event in the history of Europe has had such a broad influence on the political identity and has become so strongly interwoven with the political history and national interpretations as World War II. Against this background, the authors of this anthology look at selected museums in Eastern Europe and study their role as mediators of memory and the offspring of historical debates. Have they become historical “referees” or are the stagings in museums planned events? At the core of these analyses furthermore lie themes such as victim hierarchies, dealing with the Holocaust and collaboration.
