Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
175 (2005) 120-128
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
Criticizes a proposal to designate four Berlin memorials to the Holocaust and to the Nazi regime as the central ones, and to consolidate them under one administration: the museum Topographie des Terrors, the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, the Haus der Wannsee Konferenz, and the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand. Contends that in the land of the perpetrators the "Topographie" should be the focus, but it was never completed and is overshadowed by the Denkmal. The Denkmal fails to make the intended impression, and in its pretentiousness it is a mere pretense. None of the memorials show the context of Nazism: Germany's belated modernization, its failed democratization, and the demographic and eugenic theories of the time. Above all they do not inform young people about the postwar history of the Nazis, the pardoning of criminals (and their successful second careers) and the exculpation of the Wehrmacht. In concept they lag behind the new exhibitions in concentration camps outside Berlin.
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