Legacies of Occupation Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands /

• Main Author: Carr, Gilly (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 40
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Management.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Management.

This book explores the way in which the legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands has been turned into heritage (or, conversely, neglected) over the last 70 years. Once seen as the ‘taint of the mark of the beast’, the perception of much of what the Germans left behind has slowly change...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Legacies of Occupation
• Chapter 2: Militaria: Collecting the debris of war
• Chapter 3: Bunkers: Edifices of abomination or heritage sites?
• Chapter 4: Labour camps: Forgotten sites or sites of deliberate amnesia?
• Chapter 5: The politics of memory on Liberation Day
• Chapter 6: Interpreting memorial landscapes of occupation and liberation
• Chapter 7: Conclusion: Heritage, identity and generations.