Tourism and memory : visitor experiences of the Nazi and GDR past /

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Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Tourism to memorial sites -- 1.1 Being a tourist at memorial sites -- 1.2 Performing authenticity -- 1.3 Structure of the book -- 1.4 Bibliography -- 2 The institutionalisation of memory in Germany -- 2.1 The development of the German concentration camp memorials -- 2.2 Gedenkstättenpädagogik -- 2.3 The GDR memory debates -- 2.4 Bibliography -- 3 The memorial sites of Flossenbürg, Ravensbrück, House of the Wannsee Conference and Bautzen II -- 3.1 The development of Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial -- 3.1.1 The development of the memorial site -- 3.1.2 The current memorial and its exhibitions -- 3.1.3 Flossenbürg as a tourist destination -- 3.2 The development of Ravensbrück concentration camp memorial -- 3.2.1 The development of Ravensbrück as a memorial 1945-1980 -- 3.2.2 Ravensbrück's development as a memorial from 1980 to 1989 -- 3.2.3 Ravensbrück's development as a memorial from 1990 to the present day -- 3.2.4 Exhibitions at Ravensbrück -- 3.2.5 Ravensbrück within the wider tourism landscape -- 3.3 The House of the Wannsee Conference -- 3.3.1 A memorial? The debate surrounding the 'Haus am Wannsee' -- 3.3.2 The development of the exhibitions 1992-2020 -- 3.3.3 The new 2020 exhibition -- 3.3.4 The House of the Wannsee Conference within the tourism landscape -- 3.4 Bautzen II Stasi prison memorial -- 3.4.1 The history of the Soviet Special Camp 1945-1950 -- 3.4.2 Bautzen II as a Stasi prison from 1956 to 1989 -- 3.4.3 The development of Bautzen II as a memorial -- 3.4.4 The Soviet Special Camp and the Stasi prison exhibitions -- 3.4.5 Bautzen II within the wider tourism landscape -- 3.5 Summary -- 3.6 Bibliography -- 4 Visitor experiences at German memorial sites.

4.1 Visitor experiences at the concentration camp memorials Flossenbürg and Ravensbrück -- 4.1.1 Impact of the exhibitions -- 4.1.2 Perception of authenticity -- 4.1.3 Emotions -- 4.1.4 Wrestling with an uncomfortable past -- 4.1.5 Negotiating competing memory narratives -- 4.1.6 Auschwitz and the Holocaust narrative as global narratives -- 4.1.7 The gendered 'gaze' -- 4.2 Responses to the perpetrator - the House of the Wannsee Conference -- 4.2.1 Impact of the exhibitions and the overall memorial site -- 4.2.2 In search for authenticity and an emotional experience -- 4.2.3 Individual Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- 4.2.4 Repetitive exhibitions/images -- 4.2.5 The tourist as a critical thinker? -- 4.3 Tourism and transitional justice - visitor experiences at the former Stasi prison Bautzen II -- 4.3.1 Impact of the exhibition and the memorial site -- 4.3.2 Emotions -- 4.3.3 The instability of empathy -- 4.3.4 Personal connections -- 4.3.5 Competing historical narratives -- 4.4 Summary -- 4.5 Bibliography -- 5 German memory culture and tourism -- 5.1 Memorials as transformative spaces -- 5.2 Empathy -- 5.3 Tourism and collective memory -- 5.4 Tourism and German memory culture -- 5.5 Identity formation -- 5.6 Sensual experiences and atmosphere -- 5.7 Photography -- 5.8 Bibliography -- 6 The future of memory in Germany -- 6.1 Tourism and memory -- 6.2 The future of German memory culture -- 6.3 Exhibition design -- 6.4 The landscape -- 6.5 Ongoing engagement -- 6.6 Governance of memorial sites -- 6.7 Where next? -- 6.8 Bibliography -- Index.