Abseits der Geschichte

Nationalsozialismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg in Ortschroniken

von Dirk Thomaschke

356 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Ortschroniken and Heimatbücher are omnipresent in the memory culture of rural Germany. Although they address rather small audiences, together they represent a mass phenomenon of historiography. However, academic historians have mostly overlooked the importance of these books. Dirk Thomaschke's study is the first to undertake a country-wide survey of Ortschroniken and Heimatbücher from the post-war years to the present. The author unveils the unique patterns along which they write history and conceptualizes this as a genre of its own. Moreover, the book investigates comparable phenomena in the local history of the German Democratic Republic.

• Reihe: Formen der Erinnerung
• ISBN: 9783847105367
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2016
• Genre: Geschichte/20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
• Verlag: V&R unipress