Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Allied Air War and Urban Memory

The Allied Air War and Urban Memory

Arnold, Jörg

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Book 35

Air CombatGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1316632458
ISBN13: 9781316632451
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 13 2016
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

World War II

View All