Overview
- Surveys the full range of history exhibitions about National Socialism in Germany and Austria in the last ten years
- Examines the question of exhibiting the past specifically in terms of the museum object and its life-cycle
- Considers how people experience National Socialism and the Holocaust materially, and remember those experiences through material objects
Part of the book series: The Holocaust and its Contexts (HOLC)
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This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.
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About the author
Chloe Paver is Associate Professor of German at the University of Exeter, UK. She published widely on German literature and film before turning to the study of history exhibitions. She is the author of Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel (1999) and Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film (2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exhibiting the Nazi Past
Book Subtitle: Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial
Authors: Chloe Paver
Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77084-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77083-3Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08366-3Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77084-0Published: 21 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-5711
Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 304
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Modern Europe, Memory Studies, Cultural History, History of Germany and Central Europe