Introduction

Autor: Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson
Rok vydání: 2020
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198789772.003.0001
Popis: Local populations interacted and engaged with their nearby Nazi camps whether in perpetrator or occupied nations, and these interactions continued with whatever became of the camps after the war. The introduction situates the book between historiographical debates that span wartime experience and post-war national memory cultures, and discusses the conceptual relevance of bystanders as a category of analysis. It shifts the perspective of KZ history to the durable intertwinement of camp and community and argues that local engagement with sites of terror is a critical vector in KZ history and memory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE