- Summary
- In 1942, a group of high-ranking Nazis came together in a villa in Berlin to discuss the Final Solution, during what is now called the Wannsee Conference. Fifty years later that same villa was turned into a memorial site and museum for one of the most infamous episodes of the history of the Holocaust. Today, hundreds of people a day visit the house to learn about its history. Why did it take so long for the house to become a 'site of memory'? And what happened to the house in the meantime? This book takes the case of the House of the Wannsee Conference as a starting point to investigate how and why buildings and places transform from regular places to 'carriers of memory'. How can a house become haunted by its past? And why do we visit historical places to get a sense of the past?
- Variant Title
- Case of the house of the Wannsee Conference
- Series
- Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Digan, Katie, 1988- author.
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
©2015
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin
- Contents
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An introduction to space and place
The conference and the house
The discussion about the Haus am Grossen Wannsee 56-58 in the West German press
Memory space and memory place
Authenticity.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-75) and index.
An introduction to space and place -- The conference and the house -- The discussion about the Haus am Grossen Wannsee 56-58 in the West German press -- Memory space and memory place -- Authenticity.
Excerpts from the Wannsee Conference translated from German to English.
