Writing the digital history of Nazi Germany : : potentialities and challenges of digitally researching and presenting the history of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust / / edited by Julia Timpe and Frederike Buda.

• TeilnehmendeR: Timpe, Julia,; Buda, Frederike,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages) :; illustrations (some colour)

How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools and approaches? What challenges arise from "doing history digitally" in this field - and how should they best be dealt with? The eight chapters of this book explore these and related questions. They discuss the digital initiatives of various archives and source databases, highlight findings of research undertaken with digital tools, and examine how such tools can be used to present history in education, exhibitions and memorials. All contributions focus on recent or, in some cases, ongoing digital projects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany --; Part I Digitally Researching the History of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust --; Chapter 2 Traces of Jewish Hamburg: A Digital Source Edition of German-Jewish History --; Chapter 3 Out of the Storage Cabinet and into the World: The Use of State-of-the-Art Digital Technology to Provide Contextualized Online Access to Historical Nazi Documents, as Practiced by the Arolsen Archives --; Part II Digitally Writing the History of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust --; Chapter 4 "At Least He Was Cautioned": Digitally Researching the Gestapo's Ruling Practices --; Chapter 5 Digital Discourse Analysis of Language Use under National Socialism: Methodological Reflections and Applications --; Part III Digital Exhibitions and Digital Forms of Commemoration --; Chapter 6 Digitizing a Gigantic Nazi Construction: 3D-Mapping of Bunker Valentin in Bremen --; Chapter 7 The National Socialist Prison System and the Illusive Appeal of Digital Maps --; Chapter 8 Authenticity and Authority in German Memorial Sites --; Further Readings on Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany and Topics in This Book: A Selection of Academic Scholarship and Online Resources --; Contributors --; Index