ABSTRACT

This chapter shows how heritage may act as a mediator even while it is being reassembled, and, how it may mediate, or shape, a city and its citizens, present and future. It looks at the reassembly of two different aspects of Nuremberg's heritage at two different 'moments' in the post-War period. Those are: the reassembly of the city's Old Town in the immediate post-War period through to the 1950s; and the designation of the Nazi architecture at the grounds of the Nuremberg rallies as heritage in the 1970s and some of the subsequent negotiations over that designation. The chapter discusses what might be entailed in an assemblage perspective on heritage. An assemblage perspective can productively open up questions for heritage research, especially temporalities, place and citizens. At the same time, however, it tends not to push in certain directions that, here, have nevertheless seemed to have been particularly significant, at least in the post-War reassembling of Nuremberg.