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Legacies of Dachau, the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001, Harold Marcuse

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-563) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Legacies of Dachau

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Harold Marcuse

the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001

Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. Three generations later, these names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces its history from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve years as Nazi Germany's premier concentration camp, to the camp's postwar uses as prison, residential neighborhood, and, finally, museum and memorial site. With superbly chosen examples and an eye for telling detail, Legacies of Dachau documents how Nazi perpetrators were quietly rehabilitated to become powerful elites, while survivors of the concentration camps were once again marginalized, criminalized, and silenced. Combining meticulous archival research with an encyclopedic knowledge of the extensive literatures on Germany, the Holocaust, and historical memory, Marcuse unravels the intriguing relationship between historical events, individual memory, and political culture, to offer the first unified interpretation of their interaction from the Nazi era to the twenty-first century

Dachau 1890-1945: a town, a camp, a symbol of genocide -- Dachau 1945-1955 : three myths and three inversions -- Dachau 1955-1970: groups and their memories -- Dachau 1970-2000: new age cohorts challenge mythic legacies