0163 Nationalism and Commemoration in Belgian Military Cemeteries ...

This article addresses the commemorative practices in Flanders from World War I through World War II. In particular, the paper investigates the challenges faced by the primary belligerent countries after WWI: How to commemorate the dead soldiers that lay along trench lines from Belgium into France? Flemish and Belgian nationalist concerns affected the implementation of postwar national cemeteries. The article examines both the material embodiment of World War I – for instance the heldenhuldezerken – and the meanings attributed to commemoration and remembrance of the war dead. ... : RIHA Journa... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Shelby, Karen
Dokumenttyp: Scholarlyarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Verlag/Hrsg.: RIHA Journal
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28883777
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.11588/riha.2017.1.70298

This article addresses the commemorative practices in Flanders from World War I through World War II. In particular, the paper investigates the challenges faced by the primary belligerent countries after WWI: How to commemorate the dead soldiers that lay along trench lines from Belgium into France? Flemish and Belgian nationalist concerns affected the implementation of postwar national cemeteries. The article examines both the material embodiment of World War I – for instance the heldenhuldezerken – and the meanings attributed to commemoration and remembrance of the war dead. ... : RIHA Journal, 2017: Special Issue "War Graves/ Die Bauaufgabe Soldatenfriedhof, 1914-1989" ...