This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.
Chloe Paver is Associate Professor of German at the University of Exeter, UK. She published widely on German literature and film before turning to the study of history exhibitions. She is the author of Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel (1999) and Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film (2007).
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. Between the Material and the Immaterial.- 3. Material Experiences, 1933-45.- 4. Material Collapse, 1945.- 5. Material After-Lives between the Attic and the Museum.- 6. Conclusion.- Index.