‘Stumbling’ upon Berlin’s National Socialist past
Last week I returned from my second and (at the moment) final field trip of European Holocaust sites. Another gruelling itinerary and I returned home exhausted and in need of a break from Holocaust-related sites. I found that after visiting so many sites within the space of a month – reading so much atrocity-related material, […]
‘Sightseeing’ at Holocaust sites in Germany and Austria (Part 2)
As I said in the previous entry, my visit to my first concentration camp had been a somewhat anti-climatic experience for me. Perhaps in part because I had such high expectations about what I would feel on confronting these places I have read so much about over the years. We know so little about people’s […]
‘Sightseeing’ at Holocaust sites in Germany and Austria (Part 1)
I’m writing this two-part blog in-between my two fieldwork trips to Germany and Austria. Last week I got back from my visit to Munich in Bavaria, and Linz in Upper Austria, where I visited a number of Holocaust-related sites and memorials in the surrounding areas. At the end of this week I embark on the […]
Launch of the Human Cruelty Network website
Just a quick post to say that the website for Extremes of Human Cruelty Research Network is now live at: http://www.le.ac.uk/extremes-human-cruelty The site includes an online survey for any one wanting to share their own personal experiences of visiting a Holocaust memorial site, such as those located at sites of former concentration camps. […]
Remembering a difficult past
Next week I embark on a fieldwork trip to Bavaria and Austria, as part of ongoing research into memorialisation and the Holocaust, and in particular the concept of ‘dark tourism’ as it applies to sites of former concentration camps. I approach this trip with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. I’m not sure if ‘excitement’ […]
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