The War that Never Ends : : The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk / / Paweł Machcewicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Machcewicz, Paweł,
• MitwirkendeR: Makowski, Bartosz,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Public History in International Perspective ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 194 p.)

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as “cosmopolitan”, “pseudo-universalistic”, “pacifistic” and “not Polish enough”. Paweł Machcewicz, historian and museum`s founding director, was removed from his position by the Law and Justice government immediately after opening the museum to the public. In his book he presents this story as a part of cultural wars that tear apart not only Poland but also many countries in Europe and on other continents.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Paweł Is a Dead Man -- I. The Beginnings -- It All Started with an Article … -- Museum, but What Museum? -- “Disintegration of the Polish Nation” -- History Museums: Between Collective Imagination and Politics -- II. Making the Museum -- The First Months at the Office of the Prime Minister -- Assembling the Gdańsk Team -- Architecture, Archeology, and Construction -- Building the Collection and Planning the Exhibitions -- The Academic Advisory Committee, or a Multitude of Perspectives -- From the Concept to the Exhibitions and Everything in Between -- Before the Storm -- III. The War -- “The Polish Point of View” -- Minister Gliński Comes at Night -- The Race Against Time -- Parliamentary Committee on Culture: Hunting for “Encyclopedists” -- Reviewers Unmasked -- Stalingrad Instead of Blitzkrieg -- The Finale -- Not the End of the Story -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Photos