Антропологија историјске стварности у Документационом центру Нациналсоцијалистичке партије у у Нирнбергу (Баварска, Немачка)
Anthropology of Historical Reality in Documentation Centre of National-Socialistic Party in Nurnberg, Germany

Author(s): Vesna Marjanović
Subject(s): Politics, History, Anthropology, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: documentation centre; exposition; memory; places of memory; places of reminiscence; historic reality
Summary/Abstract: The Documentation Centre of Hitler’s National-socialistic party in Nurnberg is a museum complex, a place of memory, which studies and presents historical and political frameworks that gave rise to National-socialistic party in Germany. Historical reality at the time of Nazism is presented by multimedia tools, allowing visitors to experience collective euphoria, birth, propaganda and end of the idea of the chosen people. The movement and formation of mass consciousness of borderline between we and they, devotion and betrayal of ideals- are the contents of new perspectives on historical reality. Documents presented include Hitler’s authentic speech, and those of his closest followers, photographs and other relevant documents and sources by modern media and technology tools. The time period includes before WW II, as well as the consequences after the war, implying thus to phenomenon of collective guilt and a real need for general national rehabilitation. This museum is visited by over 200.000 people from all over the world, and it is especially aimed at school population in Germany.

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