Shows how Munich's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. This book identifies a spectrum of competing memories of the Nazi experience. It shows that the memory of Nazism in Munich has been defined by constant dissension and evolution.
"In the ever-growing scholarship on German memory after World War II, there is nothing comparable to Rosenfeld's impressively researched account of one city's attempt to 'master' the past through reconstruction." -Rudy Koshar, author of Germany's Transient Pasts
"In his fascinating history of Munich's postwar architectural reconstruction and social de-Nazification, Gavriel Rosenfeld shows how closely linked the clearing of both rubble and rabble from the German landscape were, and how closely Germany's postwar architectural landscape came to resemble its new democratic mindset." -James E. Young, author of The Texture of Memory
