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

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Legacies of Dachau : the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001
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the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001
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Harold Marcuse
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Language
eng
Summary
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
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DLC
Dewey number
940.53/174336
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illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
D805.G3
LC item number
M353 2001
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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