History: 20c Germany

Baird, J. 1990

To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press

Black, M. 2008

‘Reburying and rebuilding: reflecting on proper burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour”’, in A. Confino, P. Betts & D. Schumann (eds) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 69-90.

Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds) 2008

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Ferziger, A. 2012

‘Ashes to outcasts: cremation, Jewish law and identity in early twentieth-century Germany’, AJS Review, 36:1, 71-102.

Pressac, J. & Pelt, R. 1994

‘The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz’ in I. Gutman & M. Berenboum (eds) Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, Bloomington In.: Indiana University Press, 183-245.

Schmid, W. 2019

‘Der friedhofsstreit von Simmern (1901-1908). Ein außergewohonlicher konfessionelleer konflict nach dem Kulturkampf’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 243-250.

Schulz, F. 2008

‘Disposing of the dead in East Germany, 1945-1990’, in A. Confino, P. Betts & D. Schumann (eds) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 113-128.

Schulz, F. 2013

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990, New York NY: Berghahn Books.

Schulz, F. 2013

‘The disappearing gravestone: changes in the modern German sepulchral landscape’, in M. Aaron (ed) Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Partnership, 10-25.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract