HIST 345B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neue Wache, Aryan Race
13 Jul 2017
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In the case of germany, they"re not immortalizing anyone, no heroism, unusual in mmeorial culture that the nation is not the victim but the perpetrators, and memorializing those that su ered as a result of their actions as a nation. Neue wache (new guardhouse) was about great civilizations of the past but inversing the meaning and making it mourning for victims of fascism soldiers, concentration camp victims art about the su erings of war. Memorial to the murdered jews of europe in the middle of berlin, took 17 years to make with all the debate and argument about where and what it should be about. Museums provide arti ces from culture and societies worth of study. Preserving worthwhile and meaningful traces from a culture. What is the e ect of the still, peaceful images that accompany the testimony of the interviewees? showing the passed time? the emptiness and solitude, kinda ominous of what has happened there before.
