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Gedenken abschaffen - Kritik am Diskurs zur Bombardierung Dresdens 1945
Jetzt auch auf Englisch! Online ab Januar 2015: www.abolishcommemoration.org
/please scroll down for English version/// While German tourists visiting Dresden are no longer quite as shocked by the old buildings they see everywhere, they do still irritate tourists from abroad. Everything around the Frauenkirche [Church of Our Lady] smells of renovation and Disneyland so one is made aware of the reconstruction. However, at the very latest, questions start to arise on the way to Pillnitz, via the villa quarter Blasewitz and the 'Blaue Wunder' [Blue Wonder] Bridge. How could all of this have survived the firestorm? After all, it was a second Hiroshima, wasn't it?/ Dresdenis legend - a beautiful, innocent city of art and culture - and the German victimisation narrative without peer, bombed unnecessarily shortly before the end of the war with hundreds of thousands dead. It is a lie of 'Allied war crimes' with a rain of phosphorus and low-flying fighters targeting the civilian population. The Allied air raids of 13 to 15 February 1945 are a fixed point of reference in Dresden's memorial culture. Over the decades they have provided its climax and, at any given time, an expression of the prevailing politics of history. The texts available on the website http://www.abolishcommemoration.org afford an overview of the substantive contents of, and the developments in, Dresden's remembrance policies as well as furnishing a fundamental critique of current memorial politics of both the city and Germany as a whole. Dresdenpresents an image of itself as a symbol of peace and reconciliation and, in the meantime, also as a symbol for 'accurate memorialisation' as opposed to the historically revisionist version of the Nazis. The annual neo-Nazi marches have played no small part in provoking a re-assessment of some of the legends leading to facts being researched and the Nazi history of Dresden described and defined. Is this enough? Shouldn't the commemoration itself be abolished? *This website says yes!* If you ever wondered why anti-fascists used the slogan 'Bomber Harris - do it again!' and suspected it might simply be intentional provocation www.abolishcommemoration.org will help you towards an answer. By translating the criticisms of memorialisation the »Dissonanz« Author Collective intends to intervene in the continuing reproduction of the Dresden myth in international discourse. They would like to make their arguments against the memorialisation of the bombing accessible to academics, political activists and those interested outside German-speaking regions. With articles by Mathias Berek, Henning Fischer, Claudia Jerzak, Antonia Schmid, Christine Künzel, Swen Steinberg, Gunnar Schubert, Andrea Hübler, Antifa Recherche Team, Philipp Kurz, Sophie Abbe, René Haase, Heike Ehrlich/Kathrin Krahl Viele Grüsse, Autor_innenkollektiv »Dissonanz« |
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