HI364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Majdanek Concentration Camp, Anne Frank, Yad Vashem
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Cultural history: developed out of the popularity of cultural history, post-modern approach to studying the present and past. Germany has asked that question what should the german state do to represent the. It"s difficult to get any one particular meaning from any of them victims: valuable, though, that they provoke discussion, key ways in which monuments to an event like the holocaust are important, stimulate discussion, awareness about historical past. The tourist trail : some of these sites of atrocity, where the holocaust happened, are now very much part of the. We were tourists of guilt and righteousness: guilt at an almost pornographic sense of expectancy at the voyeurism ahead. Ethics: question of historical education, how the sites of commemoration can do enough to education people about what they"re seeing, avoid t-shirts with images of death camps real website sells these (australian company redbubble. com) 1933: first concentration camp opened 1933, liberated by americans.
