As nations continue to grapple with their legacies, it is clear
that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our
historical, political and cultural identity. Here, Eloise Florence
turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched narratives of World War
II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place
and memory in the German and Anglo-American consciousness. Centered
upon Teufelsberg – a hill in Berlin born from the rubble caused
by Allied bombing – and other sites of violence across Germany's
capital, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of
area bombing and its cultural memory. Grounded in theories of new
materialism and post-humanism, and drawing on extensive empirical
and auto-ethnographic data, the issues addressed include: moving
through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memorializing war
and trauma; destruction as a means to advance right-wing
ideological arguments such as Bombenholocaust; and curation as an
entry point for tourists to reconsider the impact of aerial raids.
This innovative volume shines an important light on both the dark
legacy of the aerial bombing of Berlin and the ways in which we
record and read violent histories more generally. As such, Traces
of Aerial Bombing in Berlin will be an invaluable resource for all
scholars of World War II, memory culture and public history.
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