Views of Violence - Representing Second World War in German European Museums Memorials

About the author

Jörg Echternkamp is Research Director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw), Potsdam, and Associate Professor of Modern History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Stephan Jaeger is a Professor of German Studies and the Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research covers narratives, representations and memory of war in German and European museums, literature, film, and historiography. He is co-editor of the book series Museums and Narrative (with De Gruyter). His books include Performative Geschichtsschreibung (2011) and The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Memory, Narrative, and Experience to Experientiality (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Jorg Jaeger Echternkamp
• Assisted by: Jörg Echternkamp (Editor), Stephan Jaeger (Editor), Jaeger Stephan (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2022
• EAN: 9781800736474
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-647-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / Museum Studies, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General