Abstract
This article examines the reconfiguration of memory at the former Buchenwald concentration camp following the reunification of Germany. Buchenwald's complex history and its function as a national memorial of communist East Germany made the reorientation process a highly controversial issue. At the centre of the controversy was the distinction between heroes, victims and perpetrators. The reorientation of Buchenwald cast the successive chapters of Buchenwald's history - as a Nazi concentration camp, as a Soviet detention camp and as an East German memorial shrine - in the mould of three geographically separated spheres of memory.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Cultural Geographies |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Cultural Studies
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)