Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Representations
Angaben zur Quelle:
49 (1995) 97-119
Keywords:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, a new exposition was added to the museums on the sites of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen - the exhibition commemorating the victims of Stalinist terror, some of whom were prisoners of the Soviet "special camps" at these sites. Voices were raised against this initiative, which tends to equate the victims of Nazism (including Jews, Gypsies, the mentally handicapped, etc.) with the German victims of the communist regime, and blurs the distinction between victims and perpetrators. Another tendency which has emerged in former East Germany is to compare West German discrimination against East Germans, and especially former agents of the secret service (Stasi), with the victimization of Jews in Nazi Germany. A memorial, the "Neue Wache, " is under reconstruction in Berlin, which tends to equally commemorate the "fallen, murdered, gassed, died, missing."
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