Die unsichtbaren Lager : das Verschwinden der Vergangenheit im Gedenken

A collection of photographs by Reinhard Matz, showing the exhibits and memorials on the sites of the former concentration camps. Hanno Loewy, "Erinnerungen an Sichtbares und Unsichtbares" (pp. 20-32), discusses the intention behind these memorials (as well as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem) and their impact on the visitor. Argues that most of them miss or falsify the realities of mass extermination, either because the experience of those who survived (most of them political prisoners) was different, or out of a desire to salve the historical conscience, or out of an ideological or religious need to give meaning to these meaningless deaths. Pp. 169-205 contain a directory of the camps photographed, with descriptions, addresses, and opening hours. Originalausg. 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.