Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson

Nazi Camps and their Neighbouring Communities (eBook, PDF)

History, Memory, and Memorialization

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nazi concentration camps (KZs) were established in the vicinity of local communities across Europe. Arguably, the individuals in these communities were not perpetrators, nor were they victims, like those imprisoned in the camps. Yet they did not simply stand by on the sidelines, passive, uninvolved, or untouched by the presence of the camps. Local citizenries engaged in ambiguous and highly interactive relations with their local camps, willingly and unwillingly working for the perpetrators-but also aiding inmates. After the war, Nazi camps were often repurposed, initially as post-war internment camps and subsequently as penal institutions, military compounds, or housing encampments. Over time, many were transformed into sites of memory to commemorate Nazi persecution. Governments and groups of survivors have often determined the re-use and commemoration of KZs, but these processes take place on local territory and have direct implications for nearby communities. Therefore, locals have continued to interact with camp legacies. Nazi Camps and their Neighbouring Communities examines how local populations evolved to live with the Nazi camps both before and after the war. Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson evaluates the different sorts of locality-camp relationships that developed in wartime France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and how these played out in post-war scenarios of re-use and memorialization. Using three case studies of major camps in western Europe, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, and Vught, the book traces the contested developments of these camp sites in the changing political climates of the post-war years, and explores the interrelated dynamics and trajectories of local and national memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192506962
• Artikelnr.: 59949012

Autorenporträt

Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson has worked as an associate lecturer in Modern European History at Derby University and Goldsmiths, and also as research fellow at the German Historical Institute London on the mini-series British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'You Always Had One Foot in the Camp'. Wartime Interactions
between Camps and Communities
* 2: Camps after Camps: Internment and Memorialization in the Early
Post-War Period
* 3: Pragmatism and Memorialization: The Afterlives of Former KZs in
the 1950s and Early 1960s
* 4: Narratives, Agents, and Issues: Memorial Politics in the 1950s and
Early 1960s
* 5: The Relative Quiet of KZ Memorialization
* Conclusion