The German War Grave Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, VDK) has offered package tours to the German war graves of World War II in Western Europe since 1950, and since 1990/91 increasingly also to Eastern Europe. Based on a study of the actors’ practices, the article identifies the generation-specific, gender-specific and societal functions of these tours and their change over time. Despite several generational changes in the traveller groups and partly modified interpretations of WWII, some of the tours’ functions remained constant. To this day, they provide a place of mourning for the relatives of soldiers killed in action. Besides this function of remembrance, they also had the social function of building a community of...
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a militar...
Over one million German military dead of the Second World War are missing. The private association V...
Between 1939 and 1945, approximately 200,000 patients were murdered under the National Socialist eut...
Seit 1950 bot der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) Gruppenreisen zu den deutschen Krieg...
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Niemcy są narodem o bogatych tradycjach w odbywaniu podróży turystycznych. Od lat 50. XX w. po dzie...
In a unique constellation, and in immediate proximity to one another, the Südwestkirchhof in Stahnsd...
The First World War was commemorated in numerous ways in post-1918 Germany. Local and national monum...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Hi...
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is one of Germany\u27s most popular tourist destinations attracting over tw...
Germans’ hesitance to completely remember the Nazi past after 1945 is well documented. Yet there als...
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a militar...
Over one million German military dead of the Second World War are missing. The private association V...
Between 1939 and 1945, approximately 200,000 patients were murdered under the National Socialist eut...
Seit 1950 bot der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) Gruppenreisen zu den deutschen Krieg...
This article focuses on challenges in the commemoration of war dead for peace education, drawing on ...
The article explicates the origin, conceptualisation and reception of the travelling exhibition ‘Wha...
Ten cultural-historical case studies investigate how deaths in war were dealt with based on soldier ...
This article discusses the ways in which society has dealt with and deals with the graves of soldier...
This paper explores the increasing market for tourism at sites of former Nazi concentration camps. I...
Niemcy są narodem o bogatych tradycjach w odbywaniu podróży turystycznych. Od lat 50. XX w. po dzie...
In a unique constellation, and in immediate proximity to one another, the Südwestkirchhof in Stahnsd...
The First World War was commemorated in numerous ways in post-1918 Germany. Local and national monum...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Hi...
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is one of Germany\u27s most popular tourist destinations attracting over tw...
Germans’ hesitance to completely remember the Nazi past after 1945 is well documented. Yet there als...
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a militar...
Over one million German military dead of the Second World War are missing. The private association V...
Between 1939 and 1945, approximately 200,000 patients were murdered under the National Socialist eut...