claim U.S. built concentration camp remove concentration camp took off directional sign to concentration camp rejection by people
Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: working off the past
New Government's law: Germans outlawed capital punishment in 1949, knowing well the genocidal apparatus that its government once built to decide who should live or die. And the state has no legal means to enact the mass incarceration that has become a fact of American life. The German Constitution describes human dignity as inviolable; the nation’s laws so emphasize the right to privacy that living quarters in its prisons are almost exclusively designed for single occupants. Never mind the death penalty — Germans don’t even trust themselves with bunk beds.
What is the purpose of reperation:
- to claim down certain group of people
- to make the people who did crime feel good
- to prevent further social uprise
- to memorize not to do sin
Holocaust denial: 10 years after war 1960s: broadcast of Nazi crimes (international student protests) Cite reconstruction
into Catholic church
over-painted in 1960
1950 is messy, 2018 is white (preservation)
1990: Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung
Memorial: good memorial Mahnmal: warning sign (bad memorial)
Laws
streets, squares named after Hitler removed
Halocaust denial is a crime
outlaw capital punishment
state can't do mass incarceration
Constitution: human dignity - inviolable
living quarters designed for single occupants
no death penalty
First reparations (called "restitution: to make things good again")
Bad at reparations
"survivor receive less pension than former SS guards"
76% were former Nazis
Dig Where You Stand
dig their truma
inspired by film
"National memory is not a fixed thing; it can shift. It can be warped. “Every community needs to figure out its own way of doing this."
Trail of high ranked: to claim the public down, "its not my business" Arrest: Ikmen (Nazi) in Jeruslem, asked to give testimony, first time heard from survivor. Started a new period of assessment 1960 college student rebell: remake the way people talk about the war
Streets should not be named after slave owner, statute remove Reason: no international pressure
U.S. reform is as late as Civil Rights Act of 1964
Confederate flag immortalized in flag of Mississippi
similar to Germany, there is no U.S. without slaves
U.S. textbook:
Thesis: roadmap, specific perspective Topic Sentence: reinforce idea Introductory:
background information on book
lens, define terms
roadmap
conventions
fixed conventions: core feature help explain thesis
not fixed:
things in comics:
composition
color
faces/body gesture
panel size
text
page layout
contrasting / connected panels
historical element
character choice
relation between text / images
multiple plot lines
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