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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Memory and the city: Architecture, monuments, and the legacy of the Third Reich in postwar Munich Abstract: My dissertation contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate over Vergangenheitsbewaltigung--the complex German term denoting the struggle of postwar German society to "come to terms" with its Nazi past--through an analysis of a neglected, yet extremely valuable, object of inquiry: the city. Using Munich, the former Nazi "City of the Movement," as my case study, I analyze the postwar evolution of the city's urban form as a reflection of its inhabitants' evolving collective memory of the Third Reich and the Second World War. Four constituent features of the city provide the primary areas of inquiry: (1) historic preservation: the reconstruction, restoration, and preservation of the city's architecture damaged or destroyed in the war. (2) architecture: the construction of new buildings in the postwar city. (3) Nazi architecture: the postwar handling of the many structures built by the Nazi regime in the city. (4) Lastly, the erection of new monuments (as well as the demolition and restoration of older ones) pertaining to aspects of the recent past. By analyzing the controversial, historically-charged debates waged over the development of these features of the city, considerable light is shed onto local collective memory. |
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