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- Title
Reisen in die Vergangenheit: Westdeutsche Soldaten, Kriegsgräberfürsorge und »Schlachtfeldtourismus« von 1945 bis 1990 in transnationaler Perspektive.
- Authors
Bauerkämper, Arnd
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of West German casualties of World War II as well as maintenance of soldiers' graves and tourism of battlefields, military cemeteries, and war memorials in Italy, the Soviet Union, and France. The author discusses repatriation of German war dead from the aforementioned countries along with the historiography of organizations involved in the repatriation process such as the Generalkommissariat für die Ehrenbezeugungen gegenüber den Kriegsgefallenen.
- Subjects
REPATRIATION of war dead; DISPOSITION of soldiers' bodies; NATIONAL cemeteries; WAR memorials; WORLD War II veterans
- Publication
Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 2017, Vol 76, Issue 1, p104
- ISSN
2193-2336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/mgzs-2017-0004