Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual ExperienceThis essay explores documentary photography and, by way of comparison, diarywriting as the most common social practices for registering experiences of German defeat in 1945. Berlin witnessed one of the…
Anniversaries and the Public Uses of the Risorgimento in Twentieth-Century ItalyThis article analyses three great anniversaries in twentieth-century Italian history: 1911 and 1961, the fiftieth anniversary and the centenary of unification, and 1932, th…
Different but the Same or the Same but Different? Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet LvivThis article addresses the changes of post-Soviet culture of memory of the Second World War in the western Ukrainian city and regional centre of …
Remembering and Rebuilding: Leningrad after the Siege from a Comparative PerspectiveThe paper takes as its starting point the recognition that when compared with other post-catastrophic cities, Leningrad appears to be an outlier that offers little insi…
Content Type Journal ArticlePages 289-297Authors
Manfred Hildermeier, Universität Göttingen
Journal Journal of Modern European HistoryPrint ISSN 1611-8944
Journal Volume Volume 9
Journal Issue Volume 9, Number 3 / November 2011
Memory in Pieces: The Symbolism of the Ruin in Warsaw after 1944In this essay I explore the political symbolism of the ruin in the Polish capital from 1944 to the present. The question of what a war ruin might represent was deeply problematic for the c…
Content Type Journal ArticlePages 298-307Authors
Aleksei Filitov, Institute for World History, Moscow
Journal Journal of Modern European HistoryPrint ISSN 1611-8944
Journal Volume Volume 9
Journal Issue Volume 9, Number 3 / November…
Content Type Journal ArticlePages 308-313Authors
Martin Kohlrausch, Historisches Institut, Ruhr Universität Bochum; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, PotsdamStefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Historisches Institut, Ruhr Universität Bochum; Zentrum f…
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