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Legacies of Dachau : the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001
- Title
- Legacies of Dachau : the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001 / Harold Marcuse.
- Author
- Marcuse, Harold, 1957-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xxii, 590 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. Three generations later, these names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces its history from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve years as Nazi Germany's premier concentration camp, to the camp's postwar uses as prison, residential neighborhood, and, finally, museum and memorial site. With superbly chosen examples and an eye for telling detail, Legacies of Dachau documents how Nazi perpetrators were quietly rehabilitated to become powerful elites, while survivors of the concentration camps were once again marginalized, criminalized, and silenced. Combining meticulous archival research with an encyclopedic knowledge of the extensive literatures on Germany, the Holocaust, and historical memory, Marcuse unravels the intriguing relationship between historical events, individual memory, and political culture, to offer the first unified interpretation of their interaction from the Nazi era to the twenty-first century.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-563) and index.
- Contents
- Dachau 1890-1945: a town, a camp, a symbol of genocide -- Dachau 1945-1955 : three myths and three inversions -- Dachau 1955-1970: groups and their memories -- Dachau 1970-2000: new age cohorts challenge mythic legacies.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-11408
- ISBN
- 0521552044
- LCCN
- 00033699
- OCLC
- 44026136
- Author
- Marcuse, Harold, 1957-
- Title
- Legacies of Dachau : the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001 / Harold Marcuse.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-563) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-11408