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Author: K. Digan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.262kg
ISBN: 9781137456403
ISBN 10: 113745640
Pages: 77
Publication Date: 22 December 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is not about just one case - the house of the Wannsee Conference - but raises fundamental questions about the axiomatic but often implicit concepts, such as space, place and authenticity, which determine our view of memory sites in general. We get a bright and frank account by a historian who dares to cross disciplinary borders and is determined to move beyond the merely descriptive level, in order to thoroughly understand what it at stake in our changing and often puzzling relation to 'places of memory'. Warmly recommended. - Dr. Berber Bevernage, Ghent University, Belgium In this concise book Katie Digan succeeds in an exemplary way in turning her topic the well-known Wannsee Villa in Berlin - from the familiar into the unfamiliar and back. What she arrives at is a theoretically informed understanding not only of this infamous place haunted by its Nazi-past, but of sites of memory in general. - Chris Lorenz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
This book is not about just one case - the house of the Wannsee Conference - but raises fundamental questions about the axiomatic but often implicit concepts, such as space, place and authenticity, which determine our view of memory sites in general. We get a bright and frank account by a historian who dares to cross disciplinary borders and is determined to move beyond the merely descriptive level, in order to thoroughly understand what it at stake in our changing and often puzzling relation to 'places of memory'. Warmly recommended. - Dr. Berber Bevernage, Ghent University, Belgium In this concise book Katie Digan succeeds in an exemplary way in turning her topic - the well-known Wannsee Villa in Berlin - from the familiar into the unfamiliar and back. What she arrives at is a theoretically informed understanding not only of this infamous place haunted by its Nazi-past, but of sites of memory in general. - Chris Lorenz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
This book is not about just one case - the house of the Wannsee Conference - but raises fundamental questions about the axiomatic but often implicit concepts, such as space, place and authenticity, which determine our view of memory sites in general. We get a bright and frank account by a historian who dares to cross disciplinary borders and is determined to move beyond the merely descriptive level, in order to thoroughly understand what it at stake in our changing and often puzzling relation to 'places of memory'. Warmly recommended. - Dr. Berber Bevernage, Ghent University, Belgium In this concise book Katie Digan succeeds in an exemplary way in turning her topic - the well-known Wansee Villa in Berlin - from the familiar into the unfamiliar and back. What she arrives at is a theoretically informed understanding not only of this infamous place haunted by its Nazi-past, but of sites of memory in general. - Chris Lorenz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Author Information
Katie Digan studied history and philosophy in Groningen, Dublin and Amsterdam. She graduated Cum Laude with a degree in history in 2013 and now works for the research department of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Netherlands, and the National Committee for 4 and 5 May. In 2014 she was the first to win the Otto von der Gablentz thesis award for her research.
