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

Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. These names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces itshistory from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve yearsas 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, andhistorical memory, Marcuse unravels the intriguing relationship between historical events, individual memory, and political culture, to offer a unified interpretation of their interaction from the Nazi era to the twenty-first century. INDICE: Dachau: past, present, future; Part I. Dachau 1890–1945: A Town, ACamp, A Symbol of Genocide: 1. Dachau: a town and a camp; 2. Dachau: a symbolof genocide; Part II. Dachau 1945–1955: Three Myths and Three Inversions: 3. ‘Good’ Nazis; 4. ‘Bad’ inmates; 5. ‘Clean’ camps; Part III. Dachau 1955–1970: Groups and Their Memories: 6. The first representations of Dachau, 1945–1952; 7. Rising public interest, 1955–1965; 8. Catholics celebrate at Dachau; 9. Thesurvivors negotiate a memorial site; 10. Jews represent the Holocaust at Dachau; 11. Protestants make amends at Dachau; 12. The 1968 generation: new legacies of old myths; Part IV. Dachau 1970–2000: New Age Cohorts Challenge Mythic Legacies: 13. Redefining the three myths and ending ignorance: the 1970s; 14. The 1980s: relinquishing victimisation; 15. The 1990s: resistance vs. education.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-06448-4
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 664
• Fecha Publicación: 05/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés