Memorials - GEOG1003
- Created by: Liberty
- Created on: 13-01-14 15:09
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- Memorials
- Totalitarianism
- Nazi Germany
- Hitler - Dictator
- One-party
- Nazi Germany
- Normalisation
- Need for nations to apologise for their past
- Germans apologised for Nazi's
- Americans need to apologise for slave trade
- British need to apologise for colonialism
- Need for nations to apologise for their past
- Titanic
- Southampton
- Most of crew onboard from Southampton
- Titanic departed from Southampton docks
- Southamptondo not memorialise the Titanic too much as it was a cruise ship
- Competing over legacy
- Cannot put a memorial where the Titanic sank - Middle of the North Atlantic
- Story retold - books, films, documentaries
- Historical memory
- Southampton
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Russia
- Huge battle fought in Stalingrad in WW2
- Millions of unidentified bodies buried under battle field
- Normalisation - Russians and Germans now ok with each other
- A memory is a reconstruction of the past in the the present
- Different types of memories
- Public
- Private
- Shared
- Historical memory - no one alive who was associated with the memory
- Living memory - people still alive who were associated with the memory
- Different types of memories
- Ireland
- Colonialised by Britain for 800-900 years
- One they gained freedom they tore down British statues
- Replaced them with Irish statues
- Disrespectof memorials
- Not on purpose
- Children playing in memorials
- People taking selfies next to memorials
- Totalitarianism
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