Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 566 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780822988571
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0822988577
Serie:
Russian and East European studies
Inhalt:
"Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler-in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: redemptive reconstruction -- Cities of the Reich -- Cities of dreams -- Miracle cities -- Cities of the future -- Cities without past -- Synthetic cities -- Conclusion: selective cities.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Demshuk, Andrew, 1980- Three cities after Hitler Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021] ISBN 9780822946977
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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Kunstgeschichte
Mehr zum Autor:
Demshuk, Andrew 1980-
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