The Allied Air War and Urban Memory
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The Allied Air War and Urban Memory

The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany

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The Allied Air War and Urban Memory

The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany

About this book

The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be traced from the 1940s to the present. While the death of half a million civilians and the destruction of much of Germany's urban landscape provided 'usable' rallying points in the great political confrontations of the day, the cataclysms were above all remembered on a local level, in the very spaces that had been hit by the bombs and transformed beyond recognition. The author investigates how lived experience in the shadow of Nazism and war was translated into cultural memory by local communities in Kassel and Magdeburg struggling to find ways of coming to terms with catastrophic events unprecedented in living memory.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Maps
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: a poem and an image
  10. 1 From experience to memory: the emergence of lieux de mémoire, 1943–1947
  11. Part I Commemorating death
  12. Part II Confronting destruction
  13. Part III Writing histories
  14. Conclusion
  15. Appendix 1 'So starb meine Heimatstadt Kassel’ (Thus Died My Home Town of Kassel)
  16. Appendix 2 'Kasseler Heimatlied’ ('Das Lied vom leidgeprüften Kassel’) ('Kasseler Heimat Song’ ['The Song of the Sorely Afflicted Kassel’)
  17. Appendix 3 'Mein Kassel’, by Fritz Stück, KLZ, 11 November 1943, p. 3
  18. Appendix 4 'Fünf Jahre danach – Gedanken zum 22. Oktober’, by August Heldmann, KZ, 22 October 1948
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index