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Steine des Anstosses (Stones of Contention), 1985
subtitle: National Socialism and World War II in Memorials, 1945-1985
Catalog and traveling photographic exhibition
by Harold Marcuse (publications, homepage), Frank Schimmelfennig, Jochen Spielmann
Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, May 1985

(printable pdf version of entire brochure: 40 pages, 6.4Mb)

note: for an English version of some of the theory explicated in this brochure, see my article: "West German Strategies of Commemoration," in: Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies 3:2(1987).


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front: Natzweiler (France), 1960, 40.5m high
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about the authors, contents
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bibliography
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back: Gardelegen, Cologne, Neuengamme
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Introduction: monuments symbolize the present

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A monument's dates; Auschwitz 1945-57-67

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Monuments say more about the present
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Groups and Goals: who is being remembered?
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Civilians
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Soldiers, Camp inmates
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Jews, "Forgottens"
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Location and Purpose
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National memorial sites
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Paris, E & W Germany
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Public spaces
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Cemeteries
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Forms of Monuments
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Neuengamme (Hamburg)
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Realism and abstraction
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Form and effect: remains
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Snapshots of a moment
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Replicas can distort
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Abstraction can weaken
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Embodiments
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Symbols: Triangle
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Functions: meaning
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Christian symbols
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Inscriptions: 4 functions
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Information
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Interpretation
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Connection; Appeals
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Case 1: West Germany
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Victims, 50s, 60s, 70s
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Case 2: East Germany
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National Memorials
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Gardelegen
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Case 3: France
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Oradour, national unity
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Case 4: Poland
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1949-56, 1960s

Exhibition brochure published August 1985, scans and page created December 11, 2004 by Harold Marcuse
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