Derek Dalton (Australia Flinders University)

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites

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Produktbeschreibung

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists, bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significant contribution to our understanding of how Nazi criminality is evoked and invoked in the landscape of modern Germany.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Tourism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781138097339
• ISBN-10: 1138097330
• Artikelnr.: 57497868

Autorenporträt

Derek Dalton is an Associate Professor conducting research into gay hate homicide, the representation of homosexuality in popular culture, and crime-themed tourism and memorialisation. He lives in South Australia, loves dogs and going to the cinema to see arthouse films.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Surveying the Holocaust tourism memorial field in Germany. 1
Profane splendour: the Wannsee House. 2 The Topography of Terror: the
foundations of Nazi rule. 3 Wewelsburg Castle: against an SS phantasia 4
The Anne Frank House/Museum. 5 Concentration camp tourism in Germany: two
encounters 6 The Jewish Museum Berlin: encountering trauma. 7 Berlin
Holocaust memorials: marking past atrocity in the space of the city
Conclusion: Nazi crime-related tourism in contemporary Germany