Red Army soldier, you are now on German soil. The hour of your revenge has struck. The evil dictator Joseph Stalin implores his Russian soldiers to vanquish Wittenberg, East Germany's peace after the Nazis surrender in Berlin. Major Boris Stepanovich's Soviet Military Administration terrorizes the Herman Hahn family, murdering Herman and his daughter Katrina and imprisoning his son Manfred. Herman's other daughters Indra and Marta escape imprisonment threats by leaving their Wittenberg home, and when Horst Hubel, Manfred's best friend, learns that Major Stepanovich imprisons him, he...
Red Army soldier, you are now on German soil. The hour of your revenge has struck. The evil dictator Joseph Stalin implores his Russian soldiers to va...
Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An archaeology of place attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly...
Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An archaeology of place ...