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Commemorating hell : the public memory of Mittelbau-Dora / Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler.

Publication | Library Call Number: D805.5.D6 S33 2011

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Format: Book
Author/Creator: Schafft, Gretchen Engle.
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011
Locale: Germany
Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest

Physical Description: xiv, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Conceptualizing horror
The Camp Mittelbau-Dora
An end and a beginning
The change of command
Shaping the new land and its memories
The Mahn- und Gedenkstätte in the GDR
The wall comes down
The modern Gedenkstätte
Major themes and conclusions.
Other Authors/Editors: Zeidler, Gerhard.
ISBN: 9780252035937
0252035933 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252077883 (paper : alk. paper)
0252077881 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conceptualizing horror -- The Camp Mittelbau-Dora -- An end and a beginning -- The change of command -- Shaping the new land and its memories -- The Mahn- und Gedenkstätte in the GDR -- The wall comes down -- The modern Gedenkstätte -- Major themes and conclusions.
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM
Subjects: War memorials--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
World War, 1939-1945--Monuments--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Memory--Social aspects--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Collective memory--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)--Biography.
Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)--Biography.
Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)--History--20th century--Sources.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Concentration camps--Social aspects--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Dora (Concentration camp)
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