Places of Memory, Historic Preservation, and Place Attachment in Nazi Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID4958735
AuthorsJoshua Hagen (0000-0003-1171-1177, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume112
Issue1
Pages147-170
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00167428.2020.1799711
OpenAlexW3043840817
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

The Nazi Party launched a series of ambitious building programs soon after seizing power intended to achieve a comprehensive spatial reorganization of Germany. As part of these expansive building programs, the regime invested considerable time, effort, and resources in creating an archipelago of places of memory substantiating Nazi ideology and power. This commemorative topography stitched together a profusion of places and spaces into a totalitarian liturgy that glorified notions of struggle and sacrifice on behalf of Hitler and his movement. This article investigates how this topography of Nazi memory worked to translate intangible ideologies into tangible places and experiences, and in doing so, highlights the mutable and multifaceted relationships between places of memory, historic preservation, and place attachment

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Archipelago · Art · Expansive · Great power · Ideology · Media studies · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces