“To the Crematorium”

Postwar U.S. Tourism to West German Concentration Camps and Beyond
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage178
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue3
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage198
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume22
dc.contributor.authorWerle, Leonie
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T14:35:33Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T14:35:33Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-01-28T11:11:59Z
dc.description.abstractFor a long time since the end of the Second World War, the memory of concentration camps influenced U.S. public views on Germany. When in the late 1940s Americans could travel to West Germany again, a new tourist industry brought West Germany, and with-it Germany’s recent past, closer to the U.S. American public. This article investigates the renewed travel interest of Americans in West Germany with a special focus on former concentration camp sites. It demonstrates the importance of tourism in creating new cultural ties, the ways in which U.S. tourism to the camps established a memory of the Second World War, and how these narratives influenced German-American relations. In newspaper articles, visitors to West Germany shared their experiences, attitudes, and challenges upon visiting the former concentration camp sites and through those interactions made sense of the war and their own position in the postwar world order.
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.description.sponsorshipFreie Universität Berlin (1008)
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s42738-024-00127-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3283
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn1479-4012
dc.relation.journalJournal of Transatlantic Studies
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.ddcddc:900
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldculturalstudies
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.title“To the Crematorium”
dc.title.alternativePostwar U.S. Tourism to West German Concentration Camps and Beyond
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