Abstract

Title and contents 0 Introduction 4 I. Contemporary Memory Cultures in Europe: Monumental Forms, Cultural Codes, Analytical Concepts 13 1\. Monuments as Sites of Memory in the Formation of Social Cohesion 13 2\. The Memory Boom and the Maintenance of National Communities 26 3\. Analytical Terms of Memory Cultures 37 II. Paris and Berlin as Urban Archives of the Second World War: the 'Vil d'hiv'' and the 'Holocaust Monument' 66 1\. 'National Reconciliation?' Mitterrand, Chirac and the Commemorations of Vichy at the Vil' d'Hiv' Monument 1992-1995 68 2\. 'National Consensus'? The Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, 1988-99 115 III. The Institutionalisation of National Memory in Monumental Projects since 1989 158 1\. Analogies Between the Debates over the 'Vil' d'Hiv'' and the 'Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe' 160 2\. Cultural Codes of Post-national Sites of Memory 166 3\. Dialogic Monuments 192 Conclusion 205 Bibliography 207

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