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Author Whatmore-Thomson, Helen J., author.

Title Nazi camps and their neighbouring communities : history, memory, and memorialization / Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover -- Nazi Camps and Their Neighbouring: History, Memory, and Memorialization -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Their Translations -- Foreign Terms -- Introduction -- 1: 'You Always Had One Foot in the Camp: 'Wartime Interactions between Camps and Communities -- Accommodating Camps in Host Localities -- KZ Neuengamme: An Industrial Camp at the Rural Extremes of Hamburg City -- KZ Natzweiler: Exploiting Alsatian Pink Granite at the 'Camp d'en Haut' -- Kamp Vught: The 'Model' Camp
Interactions, Encounters, and the Social Aspect -- Mutual Beneficiaries -- Organized Assistance -- 2: Camps after Camps: Internment and Memorialization in the Early Post-War Period -- From KZ to Internment Camp -- Vught and Natzweiler -- Neuengamme -- Municipal Relations with the Internment Camps -- Early Memorialization of the Camps -- Provisional Monuments, Memorial Ceremonies, and Exhibitions -- The First Official KZ Monuments -- Acknowledging Fraternity -- KZs amidst Local War Memory -- KZs as Sites of Memory
3: Pragmatism and Memorialization: The Afterlives of Former KZs in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- Pragmatism and the Displacement of KZ Memory -- Vught: Multipurpose Refunctionalization -- Neuengamme: A Modern Penal Facility -- Natzweiler-Struthof: Generating Revenue from Relics -- Embracing KZ Memory, With or Without an Official Monument -- KZ Rites and Rituals -- Mobilizing KZ Memory for Political Protest -- Memorial Responsibilities -- Camp Memory in Other Contexts -- 4: Narratives, Agents, and Issues: Memorial Politics in the 1950s and Early 1960s
Entrenched Disputes: The Importance of Locality at the National Memorial to the Deportation, Natzweiler-Struthof -- The Contentious Matter of Heritage Protection -- Land Ownership, Acquisition, and Indemnification -- Building and Funding the Monumen -- An Absence of Locality at Neuengamme? -- The First Neuengamme Monument: An Understatement of Commemoration -- The International Monument and the Increasing Importance of Place -- 5: The Relative Quiet of KZ Memorialization -- The Routinization of Remembrance? -- The Changing Forms and Effects of KZ Memory -- Growing Sensitivities
Pragmatic Legacies -- 6: Material and Moral Reassessments of the KZ Past: From the 1980s into the New Millennium -- The Changing Parameters of KZ Memory -- KZ Natzweiler-Struthof -- KZ Neuengamme -- Kamp Vught -- Acknowledging an Entwined History -- Neuengamme's Religious Reckoning -- Enlarging the Topographical Scope of KZ Memory -- Municipal Manifestations of Memory -- Sites of Memory, Sites of Enlightenment: Twenty-First-Century KZ Memorials -- Natzweiler-Struthof -- Neuengamme -- Vught -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Nazi concentration camps were built close to local populations all across Europe. These nearby communities were involved with the camps in a myriad of ways, and after the war, they continued to interact with camp legacies. This study examines locality-camp relationships and how these played out during and after the war
"Across Europe the Nazis established their concentration camps close to local communities. These communities were not perpetrators like the Nazis or victims like the internees. Yet they did not simply stand by aloof, untouched by the presence of such institutions. During the war local populations interacted with their nearby camps, willingly and unwillingly facilitating operations for the perpetrators as well as aiding inmates. Afterwards, the camps were often reused as internment camps, then as prisons, military compounds, or housing encampments. Over time, many were transformed into sites of memory to mark Nazi persecution. The fates of camps were often determined by governments and groups of survivors, but the steps taken to achieve those ends occurred on local territory and had direct implications for localized communities. Locals, therefore, continued to interact with camp legacies. Adopting a micro-historical comparative approach, this book examines how local populations evolved to live with 'their' Nazi camps. Using three case studies of major camps in Western Europe--Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, and Vught--it evaluates the different sorts of locality-camp relationships that developed in France, Germany, and the Netherlands during wartime, and how these played out in post-war scenarios of reuse and memorialization. It traces the contested developments of these camp sites in the changing political climates of the post-war years, and explores the interrelationships between local and national memory. These local communities were commonly scarred by their proximity to atrocity, but the nature of their involvements in the aftermath of the camps has varied significantly."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 21, 2020)
Subject Struthof (Concentration camp)
Neuengamme (Concentration camp)
Vught (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Neuengamme (Concentration camp) fast
Struthof (Concentration camp) fast
Vught (Concentration camp) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Internment camps
Europe
Form Electronic book
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