The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials Joerg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger PART I: MUSEUMS Chapter 1. Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German Museums Thomas Thiemeyer Chapter 2. The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, Ardennes, Germany) Stephan Jaeger Chapter 3. Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Militaerhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) Jana Hawig Chapter 4. In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Erin Johnston-Weiss Chapter 5. The Challenging Representation of National-Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany Sarah Kleinmann Chapter 6. "Warschau erhebt sich": The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic Winson Chu PART II: MEMORIALS AND MEMORIAL LANDSCAPES Chapter 7. A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials and Museum in the Haertgenwald Region Karola Fings Chapter 8. Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna Peter Pirker, Magnus Koch, and Johannes Kramer Chapter 9. Commemorating Flight & Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe Jeffrey Luppes Chapter 10. Local Battlefields as "Cultural Landscape" of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage Joerg Echternkamp Afterword: The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War Jay Winter Bibliography Index