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#atlantikwalleurope
#europeforculture
#eych2018
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Atlantikwall Europe Start Event
Oostende, 28/11/2018
Rafaël Deroo (AWE)
Military Built Heritage
and #DifficultHeritage
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“Monuments and memorials are perhaps best
understood as a starting point rather than an end point
for a society’s engagement with its past. If understood
this way, they still might have a future.”
-‘Mahnmal’ : ‘warn sign’
-Link past-present
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Heritage
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What is the difference between : Hadrian wall, Chinese wall, medieval forts,
Vauban fortifications, pre-war French bunkers, Belgian bunkers on own KW-line ,
Berlin Wall and AW German bunkers ?
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Difficult heritage
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‘Difficult Heritage’
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- Introduction of ‘Difficult Heritage’ by Sharon MacDonald at the
ICMAH (International Committee for Museums and Collections of
Archaeology and History) Annual Conference in 2007.
-‘Difficult Heritage, negotiating the Nazi-past in Nuremberg and
beyond’, 2008 - by Sharon MacDonald
-‘Heritage Education : challenges of the past’, 16-18 June 2011
ICMAH Conference – Center of Historical Culture at Erasmus
University, Rotterdam (research project of Van Boxtel, Klein, Snoep)
-‘Contested heritage : educational approaches to occupation
museums in the Baltic States
-2014 Caen ‘Remembrance Tourism’ conference (FR)
-‘Code of Ethics’ by the Word Tourism Organisation
-‘Difficult Heritage : making sense of uncomfortable histories / Difficult
Heritage as a Verb? Trauma, Redemption and Action, April 2018 – by
Jessica Moody (Bristol University) at Bar Convent, York (event
supported by the Heritage Consortium and the Leed Beckett School
of Cultural Studies and Humanities (UK)
- Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) Webinar 25
June 2018 : Difficult Heritage, museum at Spaç Prison (Albania)
-‘Böse Bauten’(‘angry buildings’), 2018 – a ZDF documentary on the
Atlantikwall in Scheveningen (NL)
- 2020 ‘Ethical Charter’ for Atlantikwall sites by Atlantikwall Europe.
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‘Atlantikwall Europe’ #eych2018
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Lines, Walls and Forts
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The Atlantikwall
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-Atlantikwall : WW2 Nazi Germany constructions in
occupied countries, 75 yrs ago
-Most visible, every day free access WWII remnant across 7
European countries, 1000’s of sites left.
-Transitional heritage
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EU Creative Europe Cooperation ‘Atlantikwall Europe’
-Show difficult heritage
-Use it to discuss today’s difficult discussions
Showing Atlantikwall’s relevance today(Start Event AWE ‘Walls&Peace’ 28 November 2018, Oostende, B)
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What is ‘difficult heritage’ ?
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Accepted military built heritage ?
Ignored military heritage ?
Sensitive Heritage ?
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Contested Heritage ?
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-Leopold II statutes in Belgium / Slave forts in Africa, Americas
-Gestapo HQ in Brussels / Seyss-Inquart’s HQ in The Hague
-Hitler’s birth house in Austria
-Confederate statues in the US (are there statutes in Europe for Von
Rundstedt, Rommel ?)
-Foundation preserving Franco’s heritage in Spain
-Early churches and places of worship in countries of different
religions
-Berlin wall in 1990’s
-WWI
-WWII (AWE)
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Sites are difficult when :
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- ‘Communality’ : common history (with former
adversaries, Europe)
- War, occupation or repressive force / victims : on
own soil and ideology still present
- ‘Moral witnessing’ / ‘inoculations’ (see S. MacDonald)
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European heritage can also be difficult
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Common heritage evolution in thinking for most.
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Future
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-UNESCO recognition in 2019 of D-Day
beaches / EHL / remembrance
Otherwise : ‘Missed’ Heritage
/ Missed past
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How to deal with Difficult Heritage ? (1)
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‘never again’
Further than ‘inoculation’ and ‘remembrance’.
Place of ACTION for Europe’s FUTURE
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How to deal with Difficult Heritage? (1)
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It should never get ‘less difficult’.
-Last witnesses of a difficult past
-Continuous effort (preservation)
-Time / Distance
-Education / cultural actions (AWE)
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