JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Elie Wiesel, Bitburg, Christopher Browning

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

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Individualization--seeing names on memorials is a phenomenon of the first world war: a monument in a democratic age; about ordinary people (not just the idealization of the leaders. [individuals across the nation are invested in the history: modern memorials try to restore individuality, make one think about what happened in terms of individual lives, problems when it comes to the holocaust: In the mid 1990s--wehrmacht exhibit (german army exhibit)--basically argued, for the first time, that it was not just the ss that was involved in crimes, but it was the. Nazi past but good german past (patriotic, sacrifice, etc. ): not really a criminal element, but rather patriotism, **however this exhibit showed that the army was inextricably tied to the.