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Commemorating Hell : The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

by Gerhard Zeidler , Gretchen E. Schafft

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0252077881
ISBN-13 9780252077883
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 15th, 2011
Print length 216 Pages
Weight 364 grams
Dimensions 22.80 x 15.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification: European history20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000The HolocaustSecond World WarHistoryEuropean historyThe HolocaustSecond World War
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Exploring the political and cultural layers of memory and commemoration
This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present. Building on intimate knowledge of the history of the camp, where a third of the 60,000 prisoners did not survive the war, Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler examine the political and cultural aspects of the camp''s memorialization in East Germany and, after 1989, in unified Germany.

Prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora built the V-1 and V-2 missiles, some of them coming into direct contact with Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who later became leading engineers in the U.S. space program. Through the continuing story of Mittelbau-Dora, from its operation as a labor camp to its social construction as a monument, Schafft and Zeidler reflect an abiding interest in the memory and commemoration of notorious national events. In extending the analysis of Mittelbau-Dora into post-war and present-day Germany, Commemorating Hell uncovers the intricate relationship between the politics of memory and broader state and global politics, revealing insights about the camp''s relationship to the American space pioneers and the fate of the nearby city of Nordhausen.

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