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Difficult Heritage

Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

Difficult Heritage

Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

BySharon Macdonald
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 4 October 2010
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203888667
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9781134111060
SubjectsMuseum and Heritage Studies, Social Sciences
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Macdonald, S. (2009). Difficult Heritage. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203888667
ABOUT THIS BOOK

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?

Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture.

The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved.

Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
INTRODUCTION
View abstract
chapter 2|27 pages
BUILDING HERITAGE: ‘Words in stone’?
View abstract
chapter 3|28 pages
DEMOLITION, CLEANSING AND MOVING ON
View abstract
chapter 4|22 pages
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT
View abstract
chapter 5|21 pages
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis
View abstract
chapter 6|23 pages
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
View abstract
chapter 7|18 pages
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage
View abstract
chapter 8|22 pages
VISITING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
chapter 9|7 pages
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE
View abstract
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