Places of Memory: The Case of the House of the Wannsee by Katie Digan (auth.)

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14 They influence action yet are reproduced by that same action. For instance, when entering a memorial site, people accept that the site represents a certain historical event, usually act respectfully, and try to connect with history because those are the ‘rules’ of the space. If everyone stopped accepting that a certain site represents a certain history, and started using the house as a shop, the ‘memory space’ would no longer be kept in existence and thus cease to exist. All of this leaves one question unanswered: what is the relationship between social space and place?

Dokumente, Forschungsstand, Kontroversen (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2013) p. 405. Mark Roseman, The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution (London: Penguin Books 2002), p. 73. Ibid. Roseman, The Wannsee Conference, p. 3. Roseman, ‘ “Wannsee” als Herausforderung’, p. 401. Eberhard Jäckel, ‘Die Konferenz am Wannsee’, in Die Zeit, 17 January 1992. The most recent and comprehensive volume about the Wannsee Conference and its historiography is Norbert Kampe and Peter Klein (eds), Die Wannsee Konferenz am 20.

Lefebvre’s The Production of Space especially turned into a key text for the research of (Marxist) spatial theory. However, ‘social space’ in a broader sense got to be a far wider and fundamental topic for researchers of geography, philosophy and sociology. The role and impact of space on human relations, identity, hierarchy and experience gradually expanded to all aspects of human life. Sociologist Martina Löw formulated a theory of ‘sociology of space’ that can be particularly enlightening when examining sites of memory as it focuses on the process of space-making, which is useful for an analysis of the dynamic, socially constructed idea of memory and, more specifically, ‘memory space’.

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