Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central Europe
Jerusalem sites representing the Passion of Christ shape the landscape of Catholic Central Europe. Several architectural evocations of Jerusalem commemorate contemporary agony, namely local victims of the World Wars. Placing soldiers within the narrative of Christ’s Way of the Cross serves a politic...
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| description | Jerusalem sites representing the Passion of Christ shape the landscape of Catholic Central Europe. Several architectural evocations of Jerusalem commemorate contemporary agony, namely local victims of the World Wars. Placing soldiers within the narrative of Christ’s Way of the Cross serves a political-ideological agenda as well as a psychological need of local populations, giving meaning to the soldiers' deaths and placing them in a salvific context. In this paper two case studies, the Calvary of Klagenfurt and the Way of the Cross in Syców (Groß-Wartenberg), are presented to highlight this phenomenon. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bc9f00864aa413b98178a029f747fa92023-12-02T17:02:14ZdeuInternational Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)RIHA Journal2190-33282017-07-010158Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central EuropeShriki-Hilber, ShimritJerusalem sites representing the Passion of Christ shape the landscape of Catholic Central Europe. Several architectural evocations of Jerusalem commemorate contemporary agony, namely local victims of the World Wars. Placing soldiers within the narrative of Christ’s Way of the Cross serves a political-ideological agenda as well as a psychological need of local populations, giving meaning to the soldiers' deaths and placing them in a salvific context. In this paper two case studies, the Calvary of Klagenfurt and the Way of the Cross in Syców (Groß-Wartenberg), are presented to highlight this phenomenon.http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2017/0150-0176-special-issue-war-graves/0158-shriki-hilberwar memorialcommemorationcollective memoryWay of the CrossNationalismGroß-WartenbergKlagenfurtSycówCalvary |
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| title | Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central Europe |
| title_full | Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central Europe |
| title_fullStr | Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central Europe |
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| title_short | Was Jesus in the Wehrmacht? National-Religious Commemoration in Central Europe |
| title_sort | was jesus in the wehrmacht national religious commemoration in central europe |
| topic | war memorial commemoration collective memory Way of the Cross Nationalism Groß-Wartenberg Klagenfurt Syców Calvary |
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