Understanding controversies over Memorial Museums: The case of the Leistikowstraße Memorial Museum, Potsdam

Clarke, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8509-3194 2017. Understanding controversies over Memorial Museums: The case of the Leistikowstraße Memorial Museum, Potsdam. History and Memory 29 (1) , pp. 41-71.

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Abstract

Focusing on the case of the Leistikowstraße Memorial Museum in Potsdam, which commemorates victims of Soviet occupation after 1945, this article seeks to understand how conflicts can arise over such institutions, paying attention to the politicization of memory, the professional discourse of historians and museum practitioners, the demands of victims, and institutional factors. It examines the context of the development of this memorial museum in order to understand the decisions that determined the particular ways in which the past is presented at this site.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
ISSN:	1527-1994
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 February 2019
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2024 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/118729

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