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THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTUR...

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from
living memory  this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums
allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent
exhibitions in Europe and North America - including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in
Dresden  the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk  the House of European History in
Brussels  the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester  and the National WWII Museum in
New Orleans - in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory  as well as their
cognitive  ethical  emotional  and aesthetic potential and effects. This includes a discussion
of representations of events such as the Holocaust and air warfare. In relation to narrative 
memory  and experience  the study develops the concept of experientiality (on a sliding scale
between mimetic and structural forms)  which provides a new textual-spatial method for reading
exhibitions and understanding the experiences of historical individuals and collectives. It is
supplemented by concepts like transnational memory  empathy  and encouraging critical thinking
through difficult knowledge.

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