E-raamat: Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers

This book provides an intelligibly conceptualized, clearly organized and well-illustrated architectural guide to the Munich, Nuremberg, Berlin, and also Cologne documentation centers that should be of interest to both architects, curators of historical museumsespecially institutions devoted to the presentation of a difficult and/or contested pastand public historians who are interested in the ability of architects to contribute to an understanding of the past and an engagement with it in the public sphere. I have often thought that these buildings deserved a monograph, and to my delight, the complexity of their architectural rhetoric has found a match in the architectural criticism, sense of scholarly perseverance, and openness to the at times ironic dimensions of museums of perpetrator history brought to the subject by Rumiko Handa.

Pelt, Van, and Robert Jan. "Review: Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers, by Rumiko Handa." The Public Historian 43, no. 4 (November 1, 2021): 15355. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.4.153.