THE PRACTICE OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY Timing Hiutory Spacing Concepss ‘rade by Todd See! Peer and Otho Foren by Heyden White7 ‘Wat Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors In dhe mids, thc epat n war memorial appeared in Gr san nenpapes but apparenywere arly anced The fi concerned 3 ‘memorial of World War Is the oher ovo concerned memo of Weld ‘Wart In Hamburg sve iy ofc wied have an inseiption eased tha tb suv ofthe 76h afar Regiment had devoeed oth dea “The nscriponconsited of ying of Henrich Lench nt "Germany ss ie, een fe mart de” By onder ofthe Sent, che nsipon at ‘proseried at vew hel by bygone epoch? Tn Sepember 97, a commetoritve ceremony honoing the vis oF Salag 26 VK ook place in Stukenbroc In ot of the mem 6 these thousand Soviet prisoners bare ia she cemetery and bere the cjes of aumerous vor frm the Farern bl bra rupee and sever people were hr: Member ofthe DKP (German Commi ary) and the KPD (Communic Pry of Germany) fought with each ose over the true legcy ofthe dea, both claiming efor themssves. The Get Police inervenedoaly after se “Macis/Lenini” bad bec den out of thecemaxery® Tn Jly 1976, one ofthe hus in he Former concentration camp of Stuchofin Alec, which hd hee mend into 4 met, war dese brason. On the camp memorial (gue 171)—shic, according 0 its286 Chapters? own 17. 8 Monne Consnion cmp monet Sra, A. 1h eth, Des Opi der Gaal Tings Was, 968 isk prog hors y Bones Serbo, sponsors in 196 sepresented the crematorium ames an, he oem of ‘sing spel cilled co mind cereal hope—s date was printed: January Sr tgs On thi day afer he Liberati, ceven undked new prisoners ‘pected of elaborating with the Germans were brought ro the camp! “Ale events point common finding. The memorials inoled in these actions evden do more than js ep alive the memeny ofthe ‘Bead for whose sake thay were it exec. In Hamburg, survivors fe ecdng generations red co remove saying that had een proelimed © War Memories 387 ‘hose who athe monument since the senses Ta Stakenbrock, ow po- lve paver of she present day edz credit thomas withthe em~ cy ofthe ps death of Russians (he denying io eah the) In Sut tol a far aan inerpceaion ie posble, Alstaneproteed psig = removal cule thac excluded the vin from thse ow ranks, or eae pated ere them in sence However diferent the reactions ae the mera challenge i & share. Asin he errple ju mentioned, memorial which commen ‘ate lent death provide a means of denifcsin. Fis, he deceased, ‘he net le and the ons kl in sxon ae dense in a partilar respect 3 eres, victims, marty, victors, kn, posh also as he de Festal in adion, as catdian omen of hones, th, lo ay- ty das and Bally a anrins and powers of the athens of hie runny of juice, of dom, ofthe prolerrior parcial ae of _pmerent The ist coud be expanded, ‘Steady, the surviving teres ae themschves pr in poston ‘whee hey ar flee an deny: feo which hey shold oe muse The mass mora stem ele the ving are oliged othe dead) ie various appleabl depending on she clasiicaions give above. Their ‘te alo ts, The wat memorial does or only comerorste he dead: ‘tao compensates foe lier oat ender srl meaning. ‘inal there ithe cate consid in all the ones mentioned bet ‘which then in and of tule, means bos mote an les that he ded are remembered —a dead ‘Memorial 0 the dead ae cereal a oid a hua history. They comrespand wo fndamena ate of beng prgien to human beings rhc death and life intewine in whatever ways they ae refered one other Innocent IE amlated che sence of ie and death nthe fl lowing wellknown words: "Mosimr ero semper dum vivimus et tne ‘anim desinims mori cum desir er” (Thetlre while we eli= Ing we are away dying, and we ceaze en dic ony the, whea we ease 10 live)? Whether concolor not, memoria othe dead presppoze his hae Heidegger lc nad as "Being cod death, Bare different with war memoria because they at supposed 0 real volent death athe ands of human beings 18 addin remem Trance, te question of the juicaton of his deat ral ested. Hee, factor of abiarnesy,ficodom, and wountarnes, well sors oo