Demshuk, Andrew, 1980- author.

Three cities after Hitler : redemptive reconstruction across Cold War borders / Andrew Demshuk.

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
©2021

xv, 566 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 x 19 cm.

Russian and East European studies

"Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler-in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them"-- Provided by publisher.

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Urban renewal Political aspects.
Urban renewal Citizen participation.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architecture and society.
Nationalism and architecture.
Architecture and state.
Collective memory.
Rénovation urbaine Aspect politique.
Rénovation urbaine Participation des citoyens.
Architecture et société.
Nationalisme et architecture.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale.
Mémoire collective.
Architecture Aspect politique.
Buildings
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
Leipzig (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
Wrocław (Poland) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
Germany Frankfurt am Main
Germany Leipzig
Poland Wrocław

History

Russian and East European studies.

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