United city, divided memories? : Cold War legacies in contemporary Berlin / Dirk Verheyen

Publication | Library Call Number: DD881 .V47 2008

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Verheyen, Dirk.
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents only

Physical Description: viii, 301 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents: A city and a nation between memory and future
Capturing memory and crafting identity
Occupation, confrontation, departure: the great powers in postwar Berlin
Soviet traces
The western allies: a vanishing legacy?
Great powers on display: A brief tale of two museums
Bureaucratic shield and repressive sword: rise and demise of the Stasi
Tyrannical banality on display: the "Stasi-Museum"
The commemoration of persecution in Hohenschönhausen
Coming to terms with the "second" German dictatorship
Monumental schizophrenia: the Berlin Wall and concrete closure
Commemorating a vanishing moment
Checkpoint and watchtower museums
Painting and tracing the wall.
ISBN: 9780739118399
0739118390 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index.
Subjects: Berlin (Germany)--History--1945-1990.
Collective memory--Germany--Berlin.
Memorials--Germany--Berlin.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Germany (East).--Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.
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