Denkmalpflege, Denazification, and the Bureaucratic Manufacture of Memory in Bavaria. Issue 3 (1st September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schwartz, Lauren
• Is Part Of: German politics and society. Volume 39:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 23
• Page End: 45
• Publication Date: 2021-09-01
• Subjects: administration -- bureaucrats -- conservation -- denazification policy -- landscape -- Munich -- renewal -- restoration; Germany -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990 -- Periodicals; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990- -- Periodicals; 943.005
• DOI: 10.3167/gps.2021.390302
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1558-5441

Abstract

Abstract: How, in the aftermath of National Socialism and World War II, was the memory landscape of Munich and Bavaria denazified under the Office of the Military Government of the United States? Supplementing existing cultural approaches and scholarship on denazification in Bavaria, this article considers the execution of Allied Control Council Directive Number 30 by the American occupation government (omgus ) in Bavaria, in conjunction with appropriated native Bavarian bureaucracies and bureaucrats, to inventory and assess the built environment in order to register militaristic or Nazi monuments and prioritize their removal or modification. The limitations of the project to renew or restore the monument landscape confront in turn the limitations on the "bureaucratic manufacture of memory" in the modification of individual memory.